Calendar

Tandem Surfside Dates

MORUYA 

Open 7 days a week at NSW south coast premier location

 

MERIMBULA

December - April on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. BOOK NOW!

Any other time of year we require a minimum of 4 people per day to operate at Merimbula. If you have less than 4 people we will take a tentative booking for your requested day and confirm once there are enough bookings to make the day go ahead.

 

Tandem Outback Dates

 

February

25th-26th Orange

 See www.1059starfm.com.au/competition/1059-star-fms-adrenaline-rush/signup for your chance to WIN a FREE skydive and other COOL STUFF!

 

March

17th - 18th Bathurst

April

14th-15th Dubbo - Booked Out

21st - 22nd Orange

May

19th Tumut

20th Corryong

June 16th - July 1st Tour #1

16th Griffith

17th Deniliquin

19th Swan Hill

20th Hay

21st Hillston

22nd Ivanhoe

23rd-24th Broken Hill

25th Menindee

26th Tibooburra

28th White Cliffs

29th Bourke

30th Cobar

1st July Nyngan

 

 August 11th - 26th Tour #2

11th-12th Dubbo

13th Coonabarabran

14th Coonamble

15th Walgett

16th Lightning ridge

18th Moree

19th Narrabri

21st Inverell

22nd Glen Innes

23rd Armidale

24th Barraba

25th Tamworth

26th Gunnedah

September

15th Parkes

16th Cowra

October

6th Orange

7th Mudgee

27th-28th Bathurst

November

10th Mallacoota

11th Bombala

24th-25th Dubbo

SKYDIVE JINDABYNE

 
We require a minimum of 4 people per day to skydive at Jindabyne. If you have less than 4 people we will take a tentative booking for your requested day and confirm once there are enough bookings to make the day go ahead.

 

  

Learn to Skydive Course Dates

 

We have Learn to Skydive courses starting on the following dates at Moruya, NSW south coast: 

 

February

20th - Full

March

5th - 1 Slot Available

19th - 1 Slot Available

April

2nd - Full

16th - 2 slots available

 

May

14th - 2 slots available

28th - 2 slots available

 

June

4th - 1 slot available

 

July

9th - 2 slots available

23rd - 2 slots available

 

September

3rd - 2 slots available

17th - 2 slots available

 

October

8th - 2 slots available

29th - 2 slots available

 

November

12th - 2 slots available

26th - 2 slots available

 

December

3rd - 2 slots available

17th - 2 slots available

 

**If these dates don't suit you, please call so we can organise a time that will.

 

Sports Jumping Dates

 

B-Rel Weeks - start and finish your B-rels in a week. If you've already started them it's all good, come and finish them off during a B-rel week. We focus on freefall and canopy control giving you in air exercises and video your freefall and landings for thorough debriefing.

We run B-Rel weeks in conjunction with A License Courses so check course dates above and call us to book you in to get your B-rels done. Stay for a day or for the week - we have bunkhouse accommodation or camping to enjoy what NSW south coast has to offer.

 

For anyone new to the drop zone, give us a call before you head on down to check what's going on (and make sure we're not away on tour)

SPECIAL EVENTS: 

FEBRUARY

18th - 19th Canopy Seminar with Jules McConnel + Sport Accuracy Competition

 Learn to enjoy flying your parachute with in air exercises and landings videoed for debriefing.

Sport Accuracy Competition for all experience levels - student to F License. Call 0438 185 180 to register

 

25th-26th  4 Way skills camp with Gavin Smith

Learn to fly on your belly with champion 4-way star Gavin Smith. Beginner to intermediate level 4 way skills - a fun weekend to get more out of freefall. Register your interest call 0438 185 180

MARCH

17th-18th 4 Way skills camp with Gavin Smith

Learn to fly on your belly with champion 4-way star Gavin Smith. Beginner to intermediate level 4 way skills - a fun weekend to get more out of freefall. Register your interest call 0438 185 180

 

24th - 25th Canopy Formation with Jules McConnel

Learn to fly relative to others under your parachute. From beginner to advanced canopy formation skills.

Limited slots. Bookings essential - call 0438 185 180

APRIL
5th - 9th EASTER ON THE COAST
Sun, Surf, Sky...Airvan + Gavin Smith
What more could you ask for?
Enjoy the Easter long weekend jumping with your mates at Moruya
The awesome Gavin Smith will be load organising for those who want to do B-rels, 4 ways, Star Crests
Beach jumps, novelty jumps - go mad!
$50 rego includes camping and BBQ dinner Saturday night.

PAST EVENTS:

 

FEBRUARY, 2012

4th-5th 4 Way skills camp with Gavin Smith

Great weekend of 4-ways with Gavin Smith and Casey flying camera. All the guys learnt relative skills and even had a go at turning blocks! Looking forward to the next one!

 

JANUARY, 2012
13th Australian Record 150 Skydives in One Day!

Australian Champion parachutists Jules McConnel and Michael Vaughan broke an 18 year record completing 150 skydives each in 11 hours!
They raised funds for the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter, the Australian Parachute Team and  awareness of the sport of skydiving in the country getting lots of local and national media coverage.

See the following media coverage links:

http://ozrecordjumps.com/ozrecordjumps/What_happened.html

The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter www.lifesaver.org.au has stationed itself again this summer at Moruya Airport where Jules and Michael train as a team for national and international competitions (they are currently ranked #2 in the world in Canopy Formation).

DECEMBER, 2011

3rd Bombala Tandem Skydiving

We love Bombala! Thanks to Steve again for getting the town revved up for a great day of jumping in Bombala. We'll see you again sometime next year ;)

10th - 11th 4 way Skills with Gavin Smith

Awesome weekend had by all. Los of great skydives with Gavin and fantastic footage from Phil to debrief with. Thanks all who came and a big thanks to Gavin! Look forward to more rel fun over the boogie!

December 26th - January 4th Cresco On The Coast II - The 'No Frills' Boogie
151 skydivers from all around Australia and our regular Swiss guests did almost 1400 skydives in 10 days from Boxing day to January 4th at Moruya on NSW South coast. Another 50+ people showed up New Year’s Eve to celebrate the start of another chapter with laughs, dancing, nudity and a sunrise on the beach J
The week started with enough people to get the Cresco in the air 8 -10 times a day. The 5D crew rocked up and got it pumping to a more steady flow of parachutes in the air. Then came New Years Eve – the mass exodus from Picton’s freefly big way flocked to the coast – manifest was bombarded with dozens of jumpers registering and trying to get on loads and all at once our quiet little Cessna drop zone turned into chaos! Johnny Mac to the rescue brought the Beaver down to take up the slack from the Cresco which Euroa’s Airvan just couldn’t quite handle. So in the end we managed 160 loads – 118 Cresco, 23 Beaver, 1 Airvan, 18 Cessna – not bad for a quiet coastal Cessna DZ!
We couldn’t have asked for a better week of weather or a more awesome group of people to share 10 days of jumping on the coast with. There was wingsuit flocking, atmo angles, CRW diamonds and boxes, heaps of star crest and B rels, inflatable jumps, beach landings – smiles all round.
5D has found another dimension adding CRW camera to their repertoire so we may soon see 6D stickers covering planes and DZs around the country...
 
Achievements (sorry if I forgot anyone...there were so many...):
3 wingsuit coach rating practical exams – Casey Butler, Adrian Chapman and Roger Hugelshofer
A License: Lukas Kurtz, Mariette Van Den Berg, Graham Foy
B license: Nile Reinartz, Lukas Kurtz, Will Kent
C License: Will Kent, Matthew Blaiklock, Matthew Allison
D License: Adam Struthers, Rod White
E License: Casey Butler, Ria Peck
Star Crest: Nile Reinartz, Adam Struthers, Paul Borrett
CRW Crest: George Tang, Russell Blackman, Casey Butler, Kenton McLeod
1000th jump George Tang
700th jump Casey Butler
500th jump Ria Peck
100th jump Will Kent
Wingsuit first flights: Ward Clements, Christian Vento and Jules McConnel

A big thank you to APF for their Sport Development Funding and NSW Parachute Council for their financial assistance. To 5D’s Hayden Galvin and Adrian Acquado, Gavin Smith and Michael Vaughan for coaching and load organising. To Poo, John Mac and Plankton for flying us – particularly JM’s awesome effort on New Year’s Day – 13 Beaver loads! Bec, Ria and Brooke for being awesome manifest chicks. Sal and Ollie for being awesome workhorses – and still fun jumping in between! The WA crew for coming – you guys rock!
And to everyone else for making it – see you all next year!

 

NOVEMBER, 2011

12th-13th Canopy Course

A full course of 10 jumpers with all levels of experience learnt a lot of new flying techniques to control their parachutes for circuits and landings this weekend. Streamer jumps were by far the favourite - where two jumpers play follow the leader under canopy the leader has a streamer trailing behind for the other to follow.

All participants had a ball and definitely improved their flying skills from watching their landings on video.

 

26th - 27th Display Jump Course

A full course of 8 display jumpers were keen to learn about how to land in different areas other than the Drop Zone. The weather didn't start off well, so lota of ground training and checking sites for Saturday morning, followed by jumping on the DZ for the afternoon as the winds weren't right for landing anywhere else.

By Sunday arvo we were landing on the beach and having a ball! We'll have to revisit this weekend to land in the Oaks Ranch and Moruya Showground.

Thanks all participants for a fun weekend!

 

OCTOBER, 2011

15th-16th Teenage Rampage Display Skydiving

Display jumps into South Broulee while Ocean and Earth's Teenage Rampage Surf competition took place were great fun. The winner of the dash for cash got to do a tandem jump right after the finals of the competition. Look forward to doing it again next year!

22nd-23rd Tandem Skydiving in Bathurst, NSW

Sell out weekend jumping into Bathurst airport. Put lots of smiles on local's faces and they all want to know when we'll be back! Check our calendar for details...

SEPTEMBER, 2011

17th - 18th Tandem Skydiving in Dubbo and Mudgee

Beautiful weather meant for a great weekend of skydiving in Dubbo and Mudgee. Ollie's debut as tandem instructor in Australia!

 

10th-11th Jed's 21st Birthday Weekend

Great turn our, unfortunately weather wasn't the best for formation loads or night jumps. But we made the most of it and had a great weekend! 

3rd-4th - Tandem Skydiving in Parkes and Orange

Great turn out in Parkes and Orange and fantastic weather for jumping! We were booked out in Orange so for all those who missed out, we'll see you in February 2012

 

AUGUST, 2011

12th - Skydive the Snowy Mountains, Jindabyne

Perfect weather flying high over the Snowy's, topped off by Red Bull ladies offering their finest 'drop' (no pun intended!) what a great day of skydiving. Can't wait until we jump the mountains again. Check out this pic and more from the day on our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photo.php?fbid=205119396210568&set=a.146908575364984.38499.118054648250377&type=1&theater

  

JULY, 2011

 2nd - 17th OUTBACK TOUR #2

Skydive Oz raised another $460 for Royal Flying Doctor Service, making their total tour fund raise $930!!!

Here's where we went tandem skydiving: Dubbo, Coonabarabran, Coonamble, Lightning Ridge, Moree, Narrabri, Glen Innes, Tamworth and Gunnedah

 

JUNE, 2011

4th - 19th OUTBACK TOUR #1

 Skydive Oz is supporting Royal Flying Doctor Service donating $5 per tandem jump during both Outback Tours. During Tour #1 we raised $470 for RFDS and $70 for Cystic Fibrosis!

Here's where we went tandem skydiving:  Griffith, Deniliquin, Swan Hill, Mildura, Balranald, Broken Hill, Menindee, White Cliffs, Cobar, and Bourke.

Good times - NSW beat QLD in Origin while in Broken Hill! And a special thanks to all the plankers in White Cliffs - you chicks rock! See you all next year - keep an eye on our website for 2012  dates.