Pictures and stuff from the 'Not the Liberation Boogie' weekend at Vannes 2004
Vannes, what can I tell you?
Friday: Left Jersey Airport with six dodgy grungy-looking skydivey
types, a wuffo, two splinkies, my private pilot and my lawyer (ahem) AND
TWENTY MINUTES LATER we landed in Vannes.
(As for Aviation Beauport, they said they've seen some odd
people turn up in the past, but never so many and all getting in
the same plane. - RP)
Walked to centre and did paperwork in double quick time, easy if you
are current under a (non-FFP)
different licence then the medical thing is not even mentioned. You
just get a Temp FFP licence, club membership and buy some jumps.
Then after that you go jumping!!
It was pissing down on Friday aftyernoon but cleared up and we all
banged on the first load with Job as jumpmaster, who promptly lobbed
out first!, team Jersai! allez!
Packed, drove to town drank and ate and buzzed, all very good.
Saturday: Bit windy "only got four in" interesting landings and everyone had fun, some first time two ways, three ways, track dives and some freaky freeflying also.
Sunday: Claggy cloud and no wind, shame really as staggering around
the airfield at midnight with mercanary mike letting off a firework
at, least it was meant to be a fire work more like a lighter for a
cigarrette, the sky was clear and no wind.
Attempted a lift but had to come down again, So we left early. And we
really left! AIR FARCE ONE screamed down the runway banked turned and
did a low level flyby with a gang of screaming hooigans in the back,
another tight wing turn and twenty minutes later well thirty mins
later we were having a pint at the aero club watching the C130 take
off.
Thanks Tim!
A great trip hopefully to be repeated if not surapassed, Vannes is on the ball, friendly, open and accomodating: we must get back down there when we can. I have not mentioned half the stuff that went on, two porters, packing tims new Pilot, the wibble spoken, the jumps, the video blah blah.
Kev (very happy at the moment)
and for a more prosaic report(!) see Richards report
Dejeuner sur lherbe
On the target... (for once)
Like sunbathing seals... :)
You'd smile too (if you were wearing that suit..)
coffee break.
"please dont tell my mum?"
Scoffing at 'Nappe du Monde'
"Gissa chip?"
"Who let that one off?"
Tims new chute... It eventually took a regiment of highly trained packers with heavy lifting machinery to get it back into the bag...
"...and then I went like this..."
Dirtdive 1 (you need to be bored and have broadband to watch these)
"...and grabbed him like this..."
and just to prove there was actually some skydiving...
quicktime movie (small - 5.9Mb)