December 2000 Pilot or Passenger Hands*on canopy advice Head Up Flies its Pilatus Porter at Castellon de la Plana (Spain) from january 6, to february 15, year 2001 > * f -3 ^ ' UP to 15 000 ft 12 £ I K Tandem 107 £ *' Tandem + Video 138 £ AFF (7 jumps) 605 £ Team Jumps (all disciplines) 10 £ J§gpj ^ Fly Sckool jump (1 to 1) 33 £ ^ RW Team Coacking/day 134 £ (Less cost if several teams) PREPARATION , A LA CO M P E T I T I O N j g | Open to all sky divers. ssSm thjmM A A D s extremely recommended. With tke active participation of : Marco TIEZZI Maim ARS Gigliola BORGNIS Martial FERRE Tke Frick Free Fly Sckool I^O JITELO CE ;gole ®i \ FFP En« □N TP * Daniel LACROIX, FranSoise SIMONS Infos&contacts : +33 5 49 94 20 94 Mob. : +33 6 60 67 66 07 [email protected] www.ontop-aviation.com i t k Skydive Mag 3 Burton Street Editorial Peterborough PE1 5HA United Kingdom I make no apologies for- this Mag being very the magazine of Tel/Fax: 01733 755 860 i\i We haw a spread on Cheryl L 'm* J f l B K Tel: 01733 380568 The British [email protected] Parachute Association STl Chairman www.skydivemag.com John Saunders. Plus saying a sad farewell to Patron: His Royal Highness ADVERTISING: three of skydiving's most loved characters. The Prince of Wales Jackie Green Warners Group Publications Let's never forget the importance of the individual, as it is these people who West Street BPA. Wharf Way, Bourne, Lines PE10 9PH bring about positive change. New records, ideas and techniques are developed Glen Parva, i Tel: 01778 393 313 only by people with the capacity for original thought. Without such pioneers Leicester LE2 9TF I Tel: 0116 278 5271 \ Fax: 01778 394 748 as Olav Zipser, Patrick de Gayardon and Deanna Kent, elements of skydiving [email protected] Fax: 0116 247 7662 like freeflying, skysurfing and freestyle would not be as they are. They might [email protected] not even exist! www.bpa.org.uk EDITOR: Lesley Gale BPA Staff le s lo y & sKydivem ag.com Yet, it is easy to forget this and want everyone to conform. Whether this is to established FS techniques, safety systems or parachute equipment, let’s D E S IG N Notional Safety Officer John Hitchen Andy Vernum re member that if all of humankind had conformed, we would not even have Technical Officer Tony Butler Tel : 01832 280 686 aircraft, never mind skydiving. I find it inspirational to meet so many jumpers PA to above officers Trudy Kemp [email protected] with fresh ideas, enthusiasm and the capacity for thinking for themselves. Financial Adminslrotor Jon Gretton EDITORIAL ASSISTANT National Adm inistrator Martin Shuttleworth Trish Jones This is so refreshing in the current society. I t ’s also understandable as, in Development Officer Glen Turnbull [email protected] order to skydive, we are non-conformists. This is one of the most independent Administration Secretary SusanWaterfield activities I can think of. Once you leave the aircraft, you are completely in Membership Services Karey Goodwin Z a h e d S h a h your own hands until you reach the ground. Vital decisions must be made and Membership Services Sue Allen quickly acted on no time for faffing around like we do on the ground. 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By Marcus Heggli. shows Oliver Furrer. 2 skydive December 2000 features Go Vertical Tim Porter’s freefly pictures — I 1 / 1 ' m m Cyprus Challenge a unique concept in teamwork Micky Munn, MBE Final farewell to the top Fred AGM Round-up of what’s on Bobby Hopkins The Barking One Strato Quest High altitude venture Pilot or Passenger Learn canopy skills from Chris Lynch S r Fish Eye Centre Spread Headup Flying Part 3 44 final instalment of the Giles Fabris series STC 50 Report on keeping British skydiving safe Doc Williams 59 What’s Up Doc? s k y d iv e December 2000 Lillo, the location to left used for Go Vertical 9, is now open as a full time drop zone, run by Mike Shaw. Facilities include a G92, a newly built clubhouse, bar, showers and restaurant on the DZ. Lillo is open for tandem, AFF, teams and Christmas parties in a warm Spanish location. Tel: 0034 91523 1253 Email: [email protected] Sun, Spain, 97 funky freeflyers registered and 2 Super Otters: V ertical After some initial location problems following the move from Bailen,Train In Spain ran the event at Lillo, a brand new drop zone just 45 minutes south of Madrid.This proved to be an excellent new venue. Six load organisers and two additional one-on-one coaches provided many quality skydives.The variety of nationalities created an excellent ambiance and some real progression was made by all. By the end of the boogie, 3,500 skydives had been made, making sure almost everyone was jumped out.There were 155 loads flown between the two Super Otters and we only had two days of bad weather - which meant plenty of beer in the evening. See you at Go Vertical 10! Words and photos by Tim Porter [email protected] December 2000 Go Vertical 10:[email protected] or [email protected] Train in Spain will be located in Proenca Nova, Portugal from February 2001 s k y d i v e s December 2000 i VT T i m w J l k m 0 . 0 CL Each tim e BritlO O has met, the The organisers of team has achieved its goals d espite Brit 100 are back with a the British weather. In both ‘98 and ‘99 fantastic new concept... the conditions allowed for only three attempts at the 100-way.The quality of British CYPRUS CHALtmGe | jumpers pulled a record off each time, a comment on the mettle of UK jumpers. Now the BritlO O team is unique, exciting and may I has the idea of going somewhere with great weather, we’ve even be the biggest sport all done enough sitting around waiting fo r the clouds to clear... team event ever! THE PLACE: Cyprus. A BPA drop zone, effectively British but with I great weather! The island of Cyprus is beautiful, full of ancient history combined with I modern adventure and the charm of its people. THE TIME ! Saturday 13 - Sunday 21 October 2001.This month is traditionally warm and sunny - no rain, no clouds! r»< THE IDEA: A unique event in which teams from different countries compete to .