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Our first flight on the chute weekend in Plettenberg....

was ....when we were thrown out of the bar :)
Our troupe had barely arrived in Plettenberg-Küntrop for our parachuting class and we had already been kicked out of the air field restaurant, because the owner had apparently gotten out of bed on the wrong side.....



But we don't want to dwell on that at this point :)
Otherwise, it was a sensational, fabulous, super awesome, phenomenal weekend with a dream team and great trainers!!!!!
Special thanks to Frank, Volker, Dirk, Mattin, as well as, pilot Dirk and chute folder and US-Dutch David.


that's how it's done....Frank demonstrating a jump at the beginning of the training.


Bonsai in the harness learning how to act in emergency situations (see pic: non-opening of the main chute)


this position caused the bulging of the eyes, as well as, the heightening of the level of my voice....



now things got serious.... the first volunteers (Rainer and "Belozok"Hartmut) are led to the airplane.


Rainer seems to have enjoyed it... the guy carrying the helmet is US-Dutch David, our QuickChuteFolder.


You're up Bonsai Björn!... I don't know if Björn was debating whether to puke into the helmet or put it on his head...


Here top trainer Volker takes a last look and prepared Bonsai-Mama (Brigitte) and me for the jump.


this is the tiny...slippery piece of metal that we're supposed to hop 4920ft/1500m...


but don't worry, they ALL made it down....some faster....some slower :)


the party afterwards, for which we took over Stedebeker's bride's home, was a complete success, despite brief resistence by the in-laws (Thanks to Nosferatu van Ellen)!


The participants of the chute weekend have decided to plan a second Chute-WE!

Till then,
yours,

Ron



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