Fuyang - Jump week 2011

China was this year honored to being the host for an international skydive event , this was last year held in and Pathfinder was present at that event as well. Teams from different East and Central Asian countries were present and some elements from the west.

These teams were :

- - Bahrain - Canada - China - Egypt - Hong Kong – China - Indonesia - Iraq - Kazakhstan - Republic of Korea - Malaysia - Mongolia - Morocco - New Zealand - Oman - Poland - Romania - Russia - Singapore - Saudi Arabia - Ukraine - Uzekistan

Army air force women team of the 81 group on a warm up jump a day before the start of the week event at Fuyang

We did arrive in the province of Hubei where our team is located in anticipation for the event held in Anhui province , a 6 hours drive to the east. Two days prior to the event our team setup to reach Anhui province by road. We eventually made it after a rainy day on central China’s highways and were greeted by a cold dry weather in Fuyang.

The next day a big assembly were called on for all the country team leaders to discuss the week’s plan and activities related to formation skydiving , accuracy landing etc…

Singapore elements – mix of Army Red Lions and High Flyer SG Formation skydiving

Among all the familiar faces from China , Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia some new ones showed up so lots of networking. We did meet our Mongolian counterparts and received an invitation to visit them as well, the Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan teams proved to be good contacts.

While the vast majority of the teams were from the army some non military teams their country flagship.We also missed out on Thailand (the Thai Marines were to join me but this clashed with the a military competition in Brazil).

China national team Accuracy landing team

China had elements from Hubei, Henan , the national team at Anyang and the Army parachute brigade who were present for the inaugural display jump.

The drop zones were divided into two, while the accuracy landing drop zone was located right in the middle of a city stadium the rest of the event used the Fuyang airport as a landing zone.

The airport was still open for business although the business lounges were occupied by the jump teams as a packing , rest and recreation areas.

The days went on with continuous drops for a consecutive 7 days with China scoring the highest on the medal counts.

Morocco army free fall team

We spent most days between the two drop zones that were about a 15 minutes from each other, luckily the weather proved to be just fine except for occasional bursts of winds and the morning fog.

Elements of the Republic of Korea jump team

Left to right Dubai jump team chief of delegation, Zhu Mong our team mate from the Hubei team , Maamar , element of the Saudi team

Indonesian General Endong S. (right) In Fuyang. He was the head of delegation for the Indonesian team

Indonesian Kopassus – elements prior to a formation skydiving exercise

Indonesian Army team with elements from the Kopassus / / Marineer Far left Col. Wid. Was assigned to elements of the Cambodia 911 several years ago .

Front row – China Hubei team Back row – Republic of Korea Red – Kopaska Indonesia R. Waha

Malaysian Police Commandos team

Egyptian team (White) Dubai National Guard (Red)

Saudi Arabia army free fall team

Oman team

Saudi Commandos Jump Master Team 1

China Henan elements

Some of our Hubei team members (formation skydiving)

Mongolian hair cut …

Last day with Mongolia, China and Dubai

Mongolia jump team

Our guardian angels Fuyan SWAT team