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sept. 2016 – sept. 2017

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  • B4tt3rijbackpacking down underVoyageur

    easy day

    23 octobre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    I got some stuff for my car and some food. Had a drink with a new friend. And drove to the dropzone to jump tomorrow morning.

    Photos are added @ surfcamp!

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  • B4tt3rijbackpacking down underVoyageur

    skydiving in- and outdoor

    24 octobre 2016, Australie ⋅ 🌙 15 °C

    Today I did 2 skydives. Two times STAGE 3. And I have to repeat it because I was all the time turning and could stay put. My landings where a bit rough. One was a belly slide. But luckily I survived :-P. I could feel my heel a bit but it's not to bad.

    One instructor said to me that it's cheaper to do some indoor skydiving to practice my body position. So I drove to the indoor skydive center and did like equal free fall time of 14 jumps. So thats a lot of practice. At the beginning I was turning but at the end I managed to control my movements. So hopefully I'll manage to finish my AFF course this week depending on the wind.

    I spoke to an skydive instructor at the indoor skydive center and we talked about skydiving and surfing. He said he had a board for me 7'2 feet. So perfect for beginner as me and he wants 250 for it so that's good. Now only a wetsuit.

    Now eating a very nice burger! And heading back to the dropzone.

    - AFF STAGE 3
    https://youtu.be/4xSDN23ja1k
    - Indoor skydive 1th time
    https://youtu.be/U0Scr4zbrE8
    - Indoor skydive 7th time
    https://youtu.be/Bh9RtnJ1C34    En savoir plus

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  • B4tt3rijbackpacking down underVoyageur

    another day of waiting...

    25 octobre 2016, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Today the wind was good in the morning. But I had to wait until the instructors woke up. And after a while I heard no plane. And they couldn't get their plane running. So we waited a long time. Some people who should do a tandem they just went back to Sydney. So sad!. In the afternoon they brought an other plane from the Newcastle dropzone to do the last tandems today.

    I was lucky to get up today to do my stage 3! It went wel and I didn't have that much time but just enough to pass the stage 3! Yeah stage 4 up next! The indoor skydiving definitely helped. :D

    The next videos are online:
    - Jump @ Wattamolla
    https://youtu.be/GGH8wIVEUpo
    - AFF STAGE 3 (3th time)
    https://youtu.be/4xSDN23ja1k
    - Indoor skydive 1th time
    https://youtu.be/U0Scr4zbrE8
    - Indoor skydive 7th time
    https://youtu.be/Bh9RtnJ1C34    En savoir plus

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  • B4tt3rijbackpacking down underVoyageur

    good skydive day

    26 octobre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    Today was a perfect day to skydive! 30 degrees and almost no wind.

    I started with my stage 4. Jump out of the plane with 1 JM. Then just assuming box position and watching alti. Landing was also good, I only had to walk a bit far becouse I landed behind the target.

    Next was stage 5. Also 1 JM on the side and he came up front and I had to do a 360 turn. Then docking (touch the JM). Another 360 and docking. But I didn't had time for docking. So I turned 180 degrees and deployed my Parachute. The flying with canopy was also good and landing good

    Next stage 6. Because of traffic control we couldn't get any higher than 8000 feet (normal 13500) so that's pretty low. This was my first solo exit!. I stabilized and did one 360 turn. And then I had to deploy my Parachute. Also good canopy control and good landing.

    Video of stage 6:
    https://youtu.be/wJDydf2M8Q4

    Next stage 7. Also solo exit. After exit stabilize and do a backflip. The main reason is to become unstable and stable again. I did the backflip and then was a bit wobbly and stabilized. After that I had to do some tracking. So arms backwards and move forwards. Then be In a box position and I had to deploy my Parachute directly. I had to turn @ 5000 ft and deploy @ 4500ft. And when I watched my alti I was already @ 4500ft. Then thesame as the stages before, good canopy control and good landing.

    With 4 jumps and all stages completed it was a very good day!

    Afterwards I ate some noodles and watched with some other guys some cartoons. It was Rick and morty, what a awsome cartoon, completely insane Haha. Next me and a few other guys went for a hike and walked over a closed half burned bridge and did some chilling. There was also a big bee hive. Really cool to see.    En savoir plus

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    shitty weather day, and 1st Surfboard!

    28 octobre 2016, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    Today when I woke up, there where clouds and very light rain. And you can jump only with b license or higher. So no jumping for me.

    I started to replace my belts of my car. When I replaced them I started the car. Again smoke and lots of noise. So I dismounted the powersteering belt. And I found the main issue. The pump itself was broken. So pretty shit beginning of the day.

    I had a nice warm shower, ate something and got my car ready to drive. I drove to an mechanic. And he said. O no not for that car.. He made some calls and he probably could fix it for $900. Ai that's a lot of money. He directed me to an other shop. They had an used pump for me. It I'll cost me $530. I went to another shop. And he could do it maybe for 300 a 400 so that's a better price. But I have to come back on Tuesday.

    Afterwards I went to the mall to get some straps to strap the Surfboard on the roof racks. And o went to a friend. He had a great coloured Surfboard for me. So I got my first Surfboard! Can't wait to surf on it! :D I only need some wax for it.

    Tomorrow heading to the blue Mountains. (sorry I didn't washed my car yet...) I found something for you Berry, 1m toblerone!

    New video of surfcamp!
    https://youtu.be/hCcafAz-WaQ    En savoir plus

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  • B4tt3rijbackpacking down underVoyageur

    rainy day

    29 octobre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    I hiked a lot today. Also a track that wasn't the best decision to do.:-P I saw a lot of waterfalls and a lot of rain falling from the sky. In one cave I met some people. They camped there during the night. They were very friendly and nice to chat with.

    Hopefully it's dry tomorrow.

    In Australia they got everywhere signs what is not allowed. That's pretty much thesame as in Netherlands. Only here is the consequence also on the sign. So if you something wrong, you know exactly what it should cost. Pretty handy. So now I know that I saved a lot of money by not getting caught. Haha    En savoir plus

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  • B4tt3rijbackpacking down underVoyageur

    blue Mountains

    31 octobre 2016, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C

    I met some German people the other day and we went together to the 3 sisters. That was okay but not amazing. Afterwards we did go separate ways. I went to an cave, really amazing and really big one!

    Afterwards I went to some lookouts that where okay. And did an easy 4wd track. To another cave and lookout. The lookout was amazing! You could see 360 degrees around you.

    Then I went further down the track to the Victoria waterfall. It was a hike down of 40 minutes. But it was definitely worth it. I first saw the cascades. And then went to the Victoria waterfall where I took a natural shower. I met some Chinese people over there and we went back up together. Everyone was exhausted except me. Haha

    In the parking spot/camp site @ the Victoria Falls I met some great people. We hung out together. Made a fire, and had to saw some wood. Luckily I had an proper saw! We played a game where you have to pick up a box with your mouth and without touching the ground with your knees or hands. Every time you picked up the box you have to make it a bit smaller. So every time you have to bent deeper. And afterwards ofcourse perudo! We drunk so cheap whine. 6 bottles for only 10 dollars. That's really amazing so cheap!

    I went to bed somewhere around 1 o clock so it was an great night!    En savoir plus

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  • B4tt3rijbackpacking down underVoyageur

    just some unregular days

    1 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    Yesterday I went for some hikes. The weather was good, 23 degrees sunny and windy. Saw some caves. A huge tree. Unfortunately the tree was struck by lightning. While I was hiking I saw some animals, I could only take a picture of the bird. A really cool one with nice colours. It was approximately 3 meters from me so that was really close! :-D

    Today I went to the mechanic, but he was not there and I left a paper with my number, so I'll see when he has got time. I got some stuff. Also the wax for my Surfboard so in the afternoon I went for a surf. Unfortunately I couldn't catch a wave, surfing with a hardboard is totally different and harder than with the softboard. So probably tomorrow morning new changes.

    For dinner I went to the amazing restaurant called domino's! The pizza's are tasty and only 5 dollars! That is really cheap for a good pizza of medium size.    En savoir plus

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  • B4tt3rijbackpacking down underVoyageur

    AFF stage 8

    2 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ 🌙 13 °C

    This morning I wanted to surf. Just before I went into the water my leg strap broke. So went back to the car and went to the shop for a new leg strap. Afterwards I went to the dropzone again because the weather should be good.

    I arrived there and luckily I could get on the last load. I jumped from 11000ft and did slowfall and fastfall afterwards some tracking. Opend my Parachute and landed fine. I was more confident this jump and it went very good.!

    Stage 9 as last. Jump from 4500ft, get out of the plane, get stable and deploy Parachute immediately.

    I got my logbook and know what I have to do to get an a license. I need at least 10 jumps where I land within 30 meters of the target and do an theoretical exam. So I'm gonna learn again.. Just like In school. I do some more jumps. And thinking about starting with my b rel's. The b rel's is the course for the b license.

    After my jump I fixed my seat belt of the car, it took me 2 hours or something. Pff. And I got the cable in for charging my battery. Jeaj! All done!

    In the evening the generator wasnt working of the living caravan. So I had a look and it was only a loose connector. The guys where grateful. And we could watch the latest movie of transformers.    En savoir plus

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    finished AFF and first B rel!

    3 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    In the morning I had to do the hop and pop - AFF stage 9. So jump at 5000ft out of the plane and get stable as soon as possible. Then deploy Parachute and land on the ground. As simple as it can get. And I passed!

    Next are the B rel's. These are the stages for the b license. I did the first stage today and it didn't go to well. My exit was unstable and it was my first exit where I had to climb outside the plane. After I got out of the plane. I had to do some slowfall with docking and fastfall with docking. But I just went going backwards and moved to far from the instructor. At 5000ft I had to turn 90 degrees away and do a short track, brake and deploy Parachute. I did everything way to slow and my Parachute was opened @ 2200ft that is way to low. So next time I have to be faster and make quicker adjustments. My landing was good and landed next to the target.
    Video of the jump: https://youtu.be/hy7hNWWb7yg

    I studied trough the books for the a exam. I hope to do it next week.

    This evening had a talk with some mates at the dropzone, played ping pong and ofcourse perudo! And we drink some beers, great evening!    En savoir plus

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    b rel's with barbie

    5 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

    The night before was pretty crazy we did some tree climbing in the middle of the night. And some rock climbing. But it was so good!.

    The next morning I had to wake up early and do my b rel 1 again. The exit was a lot better and I deployed also at the good height. The only thing I have to improve is that my legs are to wide.

    Afterwards I did B rel 2 and did an linked exit. That went really good and I had to turn sideways and dock. And the Turning I had to do with my leg. But still have to bring my legs more together. So somewhere next week I'm gonna do some more indoor skydiving and improve my box position.

    Video of b rel 2: https://youtu.be/td69wvjRrCI

    In the afternoon we had some beers because I finished my AFF, someone else got his b license and another one got his tandem instructor license. It was pretty cosy. In the evening we had an barbie (bbq) and played some games. It was really good!    En savoir plus

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    making a terrace

    5 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    Today was an relaxing day. We tried to find a chill place with some guys but didn't worked out. On our way back we saw a junk pile. We took an useful chair and some wood with us.

    When we got back home we ended up to make an terrace for someone. And one of the guys had a bobcat and everyone was watching. Wen he was done he drove on 2 weels and did some donuts on the bobcat, that crazy old guy!

    We leveled everything out and places pallets with on top the wood we found. Pretty good result!

    Also add some pictures of the dropzone, carparking where I parked my car and buildings for skydive center. Also all the caravans where a lot of people live in on the dropzone.    En savoir plus

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    mermaids pool

    7 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C

    This morning I woke up @ the dropzone and watched some landings of skydivers.

    Then I went to a big dam. It was nice to see.

    And in the morning / afternoon I went to the mermaids pool. That was so great! I had to hike for 20 minutes first to get there. To get in the pool you had to jump from a cliff of 10 meters. And I did a few times the rope swing at the other side. To go up again you had to climb a wall with an rope. Not the most ideal way but the only way. It was very cool.

    Video cliff jump: https://youtu.be/cnxmHCUMMeY
    Cliff jump: https://youtu.be/L1TtJAn6CmU
    Rope swing: https://youtu.be/CcVSVaMzAY0

    In the afternoon I had to buy new shorts. My old one had already a hole in the back of my shorts. I hope it didn't happen cause of farts.. Haha.

    Tomorrow indoor skydiving!    En savoir plus

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    indoor skydive and cinema

    9 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    Yesterday I got finally my post. So hopefully I have my 2nd battery system quickly working. I also went in a parking garage, I have to look everytime I go in because of the height of my car. It is 2,10m and some entrances are only 1,9m.

    In the afternoon I went voor another time indoor skydiving. It helped a lot. I have my legs now more together. And that was my great goal. So hopefully Finnish my b rel's @ Moruya.

    Video indoor skydive: https://youtu.be/0FnYF-FRBkI

    Today I went to the mechanic to deliver my car. And I went shopping for some stuff. When I came back I was disappointed. They didn't do anything. So afterwards they went looking for a pump. And tomorrow they will fit it in. So have to get back tomorrow. Great shop! Pff I think he's a guy from Morocco or turkey, so that would explain a bit that he needs pressure. But yeah no worries.

    Just went to the cinema to doctor strange. That was a good enjoyable movie. Just what you could expect from a marvell.    En savoir plus

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    car fixed, check!

    10 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

    This morning at 6:00 I woke up because of loud knocking on my car window. I opened my eyes and saw the police! Oh shit.. I opend the door and asked me if I was Allright. Then they said a neighbor has called because of noise pollution. Probably I was snoring to loud and now I gonna Get an ticket. Wft man, what were these guys thinking. Go fetch some criminals man!. Haha no just kidding, they asked me if I was Allright, and a neighbor called because he was worried. So they Said, go back to sleep. Crazy thing to start the day with. But I slept for a short time.

    Finally they started to fix my powersteering of my car. I was asked by the mohamad (mechanic shop owner) to do some work and sell some stuff and get some money. So I got some work pants.

    I helpt the another mechanic to get my back door fixed, he couldn't get it open. And I could, he looked surprised and thought I was joking. Haha so happy my door and powersteering is working!

    Now refreshing oil, replace oil filter and airfilter. Get my dual battery system working and make the floor for the Matress better.

    I went to Bunnings (kind of gamma) and I had to laugh about the power plugs and switches they use for power.

    This evening I stayed @ the house of mohamad and had dinner over there, it was so nice! He has 5 children and needed a big house.

    Tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday I'll be working.    En savoir plus

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    work weekend

    12 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ 🌙 28 °C

    Thursday I arrived at the house of mohamad. I waited till they came home. At 22:00 they made some dinner for me. I slept in my car in their garden.

    The next morning I had some decent breakfast and started to work. We had to sort all kind of boxes with michelangelous stuff. The idea was to sell this Sunday at a market. So today helping packing and Sunday selling stuff. The dinner was with thin bread like the bread you use for eating rotti. Together with stoved meat and unions. It was pretty good. Never had it And it's something else! They are so kind to me, I get everything, drinks, food. And as much as I want.

    Saturday I fixed their lawnmower and did some cleaning in the shed and outside the shed. The dinner was raw meat, Some vegetables and some potatoes. With the meat you put some olive oil on it together with some raw onions and with the thin bread you pick some raw meat and eat it. It was pretty good, I didn't expect that. So hopefully I'm not getting sick from the raw meat :-P.

    Sunday we woke up early to pack the ute and trailer for the market. I went together with the dad of mohamad. We put all our stuff on the tables. And a few people where coming. It wasn't that busy. We sold some stuff. But it was not successful enough. So we had to bring a hole lot of stuff back home. It was a fun day and learned a lot about selling products.

    Afterwards mohamad and I cleaned in frons of the shed. I also managed to make my 2nd battery system working in my car! Another thing finished. In the evening I had also a goof conversation with the father of mohamad about religion and moslims.

    Now only new engine oil and filter. And I have to finish the floor properly. Tomorrow I'll also help mohamad with some stuff.    En savoir plus

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    more work

    15 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    Monday I went with mohamad to his shop and helpt him with some stuff. In the afternoon I went to a Boardgameshop and played carcassonne. That's a pretty cool game! Unfortunately I won the game.. In the evening I connected my laptop to his TV and watched deadpool. That's ofcourse way of life to watch movies! Haha.

    Tuesday I went together with mohamad to his shop with my own car and I replaced my oil filter and oil. So another thing finished @ my car. Now only finish the floor and maybe fix the air-conditioning. Probably the Compressor has to be replaced. In the afternoon I went to a dutch shop to get some licorice and other Dutch stuff. Afterwards I went to the post office to get my new Board game. Hopefully I can find some victims to play. I went back to the shop and waited for mohamad to finish and go home. After dinner I finished my floor in the car and I fixed my speaker. There was a cable loose and that was ofcourse in the most difficult part to reach! So I almost took my whole car apart, got the cables connected and put everything together. I'm so glad it's working now!.

    Wensday I build in a new radio and new speakers in the ute of mohamad. Afterwards I tried to recover some corrupted pictures from a phone, but unfortunately I couldn't fix them. In the evening I had mohamad's favorite food (picture). And watched a movie together with pepernoten! Yum yum.    En savoir plus

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    last days with the family's

    21 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C

    Thursday was a pretty relaxed day. I did some small stuff and learned a bit for my a license exam. And in the evening We watched Jason Bourne, at least until everyone fell asleep. Haha.

    Friday I did some small stuff on the day and in the afternoon I went with mohamad to his place. In his shed we placed some shelving for car parts.

    Saturday we cleaned the shed and sorted all kinds of car parts and other stuff on the shelves.

    Sunday I helped camal. He is the neighbor of mohamad and his partner in the mechanic shop. Camal also needed to clean his shed. So thats what I did. Afterwards I had a barbie @ his place and met his kids. They were 12 till 24 years. All the kids couldn't believe the first time that I was a backpacker and lived in my car. Pretty cool reactions. One of them had brought a quad the other day and they where driving in the front yard. He asked if I wanna drive. So you know me. I said, I wanna try l. And he asked if I know how to drive. And I said a bit shy yeah I think so. I jumped on the bike and made 2 rounds and they were looking surprised at me. They didn't expect that I would drive better than them. Haha. So funny! And everyone I told about skydiving, they thought I did only one tandem. And I always have to say afterwards that I did a couple of jumps. Currently 16, and everyone is then looking with big eyes like wtf 16!? Haha. I had a good time there. They tried to convince me to stay longer there, or even live there.

    Monday I went to the shop and cleaned my car. Afterwards I went to the dropzone and did my @ exam. It's pretty easy to pass so. Pretty easy peasy.    En savoir plus

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    trip Melbourne day 1

    23 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    The first day I got some groceries and met adrien. Adrien is gonna travel with me to Melbourne. He's from France and also backpacker.

    The fist stop was again mermaids pool, that was just perfect. The weather was 33 degrees and then a jump and swim In the water is very refreshing!

    Afterwards we went to Bellmore falls. That was also beautiful! We had to walk for 40 minutes to get there and it was pretty hot. When we got there it was only 20 degrees. So a lot colder. We took an natural shower and that was cold enough. When we went back up, the temperature difference was almost 15 degrees in 50 meters. Really crazy!

    At the end of the day we went to surfcamp to get my lost earplugs back. And then we parked our car a bit further on the road. We ate some pasta and went to the beach where I normally would go when I was on surfcamp. I told adrien that they would come a bit after 22:00. We sit there a 20 minutes and all the persons where coming to the beach. We chilled with the group and went back to the car to sleep. It was a great day!    En savoir plus

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    trip Melbourne day 2

    23 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

    This morning I woke up and I can truly say that I slept with another man :-P haha. I tried to surf but it was really hard to catch a good wave. So unfortunately I didn't stand up. Next time better. Wen I was laying on my Surfboard I was thinking: just imagine to wake up get your wetsuit on and after a walk of 200 meters you go in the sea. Just crazy if you think about it!

    We went to a winery and tasted some wine. It was fun and tasted 10 kinds of wine. White, red, sweet dry.

    Then we wanted to go to an Park, but it was closed because they were training with guns for the military. So we went to Hyams beach. This beach has the whitest sand in the world. It's so beautiful.

    Next was jarvis Bay. There was a toll boot but there was nobody. Than just drive and pay nothing. On our way we saw some Kangaroos. A bit further in the walking track there was an group of Kangaroos. At the end of the track was an amazing cave at the beach.

    On our way further south I drove on a 4wd track and saw some lobsters on the road. It was funny to see. The lobster was 90 degrees turned from the car. When we got in the car and slowly began to drive. The lobster turned slowly towards the car with his claws. It was so funny to see. If he wanted to attack my car. I drove past him and left him alone.

    We ate some pizza's for ofcourse domino's. And went to a sort of camping. The weather today was not that good, temperature was good but it rained a lot in the afternoon.    En savoir plus

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    trip Melbourne day 3

    24 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ 🌙 14 °C

    This morning I could sleep a bit longer. We went to a beach first thing in the morning.

    Afterwards we went land inwards and drove a gravel track for 30 km. And there were even people living there.. We did a track, it was a really good track and workout! We went to 1 cave but it wasn't that special. But the walk took us almost 4 hours. Then drove back to the normal road and saw some lizards on or way, lucky we could get a photo from one. It was 1,5 meters long! Then went to another beach. It was okay.

    We also visit a lake, that Lake was beautiful!. Just sitting there for a while. Saw some fish jumping out of the water.

    I went to look for the oil resovoir for the Powersteering because it was making a zooming noise. And it was empty, so that's shit. I gonna try to find the leak tomorrow and for now just got some oil and put it in there.

    We had dinner next to a lot of boats in bateman's Bay and we are now in Moruya @ the dropzone.    En savoir plus

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    trip Melbourne day 4 / skydiving

    26 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    It was a pretty relaxed day. I did B-rel 3 and B-rel 4 and afterwards I filled all the paperwork for my a-licence.

    With B-rel 3 I had to get out of the plane unlinked and get stable in front of him. Then I had to turn 180 degrees and had to dock. And most importantly to look over my shoulder where he's at. And then back and turn the other way. At 5,500 ft I had to track towards the sea and deploy. My landing wasn't that good but it was a brand new canopy and it was a bit smaller so I had a lot more forward movement.

    Video: https://youtu.be/uI0kkETWJI4

    B-rel 4 I did a linked exit where I was outside the plane. It was not perfect but just okay. I had to do some left turns and dock every time differently wit a leg or an arm. When I finished my manoeuvres we did a spin together and flew away from each other. It was fun! When I tried to deploy my Parachute I grabbed wrong and had to grab a second time. Due that my Parachute was opened at 2500ft so pretty low. My landing was a lot better now but I have to flare earlyer to get more lift and an more soft landing.

    Video: https://youtu.be/FIseSIYVFzA

    In the end of the day we drunk some beers and chatted all about our jumps and other stuff.

    There was one other guy who was doing his AFF. He was so crazy in a good way. He was fooling around and act like stupid, but he wasn't.

    One student flew to far with his landing pattern and due the turbulence next to the building he slammed into the fence. He was really lucky he didn't hurt himself.    En savoir plus

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    trip Melbourne day 5 / skydiving

    27 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    I had a decent sleep and went out of bed around 8. So it wasn't too early and when I went to the hall where everyone is packing and hanging around. I asked an instructor to do stage 5, that's the first 3-way. But she said I could do a few 2 ways with other people. And they don't had to be instructors.

    After a bit asking around I found someone who wants to do an 2 way with me. And afterwards I owed him beer. He had almost 240 jumps and acts like a base for me to fly to. The persons who where going out first took a long time. She was trying to get out but her head got stuck under the arm of someone else and it took them 27 secs to get out of the plane. Then we did an unlinked exit and I dived towards him and overshot him first a bit. But came back and made a dock. Then did a turn, had to fall faster ad did some forward movement to dock again. At 5,500 I turned and tracked away. With the deployment I failed to grab my pilot chute and tried to throw it but it didn't worked and the second time I made sure I would throw it and I was opened at 2500ft so that's pretty low but I expected that. Then flew to the ground and landed ok. I could do it better to flare a bit earlier and get some lift.

    Video: https://youtu.be/JNZhmOxs5uk

    The other 2 way I did with another guy who had just over 50 jumps. We did also an unlinked exit and I tried to get to him. We almost had 1 dock. I was falling to slow and he was falling a bit faster. But it didn't worked out to get an proper dock. This time I flared a bit earlier and got that lift to have an perfect landing.

    Then my B-rel 5. I went with an instructor and the other guy I did my first 2 way. We exit the plane at 15000ft and I had to dive down to them. It took me a while to get there in the right position and get a dock. Then we tried to get another formation but I was already floating away. Then I had to track of into the cloud and deploy my Parachute. I circled down from 3500ft till 2500ft. And then I saw finally something beneath me, it was the beach. So I was glad I was just in the right spot and not too far away from the dropzone. Just before I landed the Parachute dropped suddenly out of the sky. But I flared just in time and had a good landing. But it was pretty scary to jump through the cloud for the first time.

    Video: https://youtu.be/wvaFj68GKSs

    In the evening we had some beers and had a crazy night! One guy was so drunk, he fell asleep on his chair and we carried him with chair to his bed. Haha    En savoir plus

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    trip Melbourne day 6

    27 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Today I woke up early. Its was a cloudy day so no jumping at all today. But now I had time to do all my laundry and upload the movies of my last jumps. Also do some more stuff so I don't have to do a lot until I'm In Melbourne or adelaide.

    In the evening we had some beers. When we were talking I saw something strange flapping around in the kitchen. I first thought it was bird but it doesn't looked like it. It was a big as moth with the side of my whole hand.

    Afterwards I watched formula 1 from 0:00 till almost 2:00.    En savoir plus

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    trip Melbourne day 7 / skydiving

    28 novembre 2016, Australie ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    I woke up and it was sunny! Thats a lot better than the clouds and rain from yesterday.

    I heard the first plane taking off and saw no skydivers on the ground. So if I'm lucky I can do a jump today. Luckily there was also one other B-rel jumper. He would jump a 2-way but I joined them and we did a 3-way.

    We went on the second load. I climbed outside the plane and our exit was just okay. I went to the closest person and I got the dock. Then I just waited for the other person to dock. He went diving towards us but way to fast. So he tried to brake but got upside down and shot just underneath us. Lucky he just missed us. And he almot got the dock. Then we had to break off and track. There was more wind than I expected and got more lift when flaring and fell almost 1 meter to the ground.

    Afterwards we were lucky that there was one other load. So I got on it and did now a 2-way. Exit was pretty messy, just flipped around but got stable. It took a bit to get to eachother and get the dock. We had just enough time to do one side dock before we had to break off at 5500ft. This time I fooled around with the canopy. This time there was even more wind. So I flared a lot lower and landing was perfect!.

    In the afternoon I got everything out of my car and sorted everything. And this evening we drink some beers and did a game.    En savoir plus

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