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December 2014 skydivethemag.com British Parachute Association skyDIVEthe mag INSIDE: NATIONALS 2014 NEW HEAD UP RECORD TEAM GB WINS THE ESL ECLIPSE ON THE SECRETS OF GREAT TEAMS NEW WOMEN’S WORLD RECORD BODYFLIGHT REVENGE MEET TRIBUTES TO DARE WILSON AND TIM MACE PLUS ALL THE LATEST NEWS, IDEAS AND EVENTS WELCOME What a Mag! It’s absolutely bursting at the seams with competitions, records and a bumper Club Zone. It’s also bursting due to remembering two very special people – Dare Wilson and Tim Mace. I really could fi ll the entire Mag with memories of just these two individuals. Dare Wilson was the second Chairman of the BPA and he started this very magazine back in 1964. Although we have focused on his life within parachuting, he also had signifi cant military achievements. Tim Mace was a test pilot and cosmonaut who competed in every single skydiving discipline at World level – what a legend. I’m really looking forward to Skydive the Expo in Nottingham on January 24 2015. It’s for absolutely everyone, whether you’ve been jumping for decades or have only just started (or haven’t yet started!). I still remember my fi rst AGM, as it was then called – Rick ‘Oracle’ Boardman made me go, and I’m very glad he did! It was great to meet so many like-minded people and to fi nd out so much about this new sport that I already loved. That was fourteen years ago and it’s still one of the highlights of my year. See you there! Liz Ashley British Parachute Association Ltd The National Governing Body for Sport Parachuting. A company limited by guarantee. Registered in London No. 875429. BPA Ltd, Wharf Way, Glen Parva, Leicester LE2 9TF Tel: 0116 278 5271 Fax: 0116 247 7662 Website: www.bpa.org.uk Membership Services: [email protected] Administration: [email protected] Patron His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales Vice Presidents Jim Crocker, John Lines, Chris Allen, John Smyth MVO, John Hitchen Council and Committee Chairs Representatives Martin Soulsby Chair [email protected] Debbie Carter Treasurer Craig Poxon Vice Chair [email protected] John Smyth MVO Royal Aero Club Delegate Ian Marshall Competitions Chair [email protected] Craig Poxon RAeC Alternate Delegate Craig Poxon Development Chair [email protected] John Smyth MVO IPC Delegate Adrian Bond Communications Chair [email protected] John Hitchen IPC Alternate Delegate John Hitchen STC Chair [email protected] Paul Applegate Riggers Chair 01869 277469 [email protected] Staff Tony Butler Chief Operating Offi cer Council Members Jeff Montgomery Safety and Technical Offi cer Paul Applegate [email protected] Trudy Kemp PA to above offi cers Karen Bain [email protected] Jon Gretton Financial Administrator Brian Cumming [email protected] Martin Shuttleworth Secretary-General Jackie Harper [email protected] Karey Goodwin Membership Services Ian Rosenvinge [email protected] Sue Allen Membership Services Mark Skarratts [email protected] Helen Lucas Administration Secretary James Swallow [email protected] David Lucas Stock Controller Brian Vacher [email protected] Thea Westley [email protected] Archivists Andrew Hilton and Graham Spicer [email protected] RECOGNISED BY Approved GA/101/96 skyskyDIVEDIVE December xxxxx 20142014 33 CONTENTS Cover and Contents: Council member Brian Vacher swoops his Peregrine 75 alongside his PD Factory Team mate Ian Drennan at the CP World Championships in Z-Hills, Florida. By Joe Abeln Welcome: The making of the Calendar cover! Craig Poxon docks on the bottom of his team CFUK’s stack and turns backwards to get the shot. By Ming Chu IN THIS ISSUE 03 Welcome 14 Dare Wilson 40 Head Up Record 52 Progression Zone 78 Events Zone to the December issue A tribute to the BPA’s 50 per cent bigger, Canopy Progression: Dates for your diary of Skydive the Mag! second Chairman 100 per cent better! what’s your story? 81 Time Zone 06 News Zone 17 Nationals 2014 42 Women’s World Record 54 Safety Zone ‘The High One’, courtesy Keep up to date with the Two dropzones, nine The inside story of two new Mal of the month, with power of the SAS latest skydiving news disciplines and more! World Records! lines and vengeful cattle 82 Puzzle/Cartoon 08 Comp Zone 31 Eclipse 45 Bodyfl ight Revenge 57 DZs Baz Carey rumbles the Win a SOLO audible alti! Team-forming advice The best way to beat the How to contact your local DZ Freefall Camera Project’s and ideas from Eclipse post-Nationals blues cunning plan... 11 BPA Zone 58 Club Zone News and announcements 38 ESL 48 Tim Mace All the goings-on at a DZ from the offi ces of the BPA Team GB triumph and Spaceman, legend and near you have a sword to prove it! skydiver extraordinaire 4 skyDIVE December 2014 CONTENTS emag.com December 2014 skydiveth British Parachute Association skyDIVEthe mag INSIDE: NATIONALS 2014 NEW HEAD UP RECORD TEAM GB WINS THE ESL ECLIPSE ON THE SECRETS OF GREAT TEAMS NEW WOMEN’S WORLD RECORD BODYFLIGHT REVENGE MEET TRIBUTES TO DARE WILSON AND TIM MACE PLUS ALL THE LATEST NEWS, IDEAS AND EVENTS Skydive the Mag is published by: Archant Dialogue Ltd, Prospect House, Rouen Road, Norwich NR1 1RE Tel: +44 (0) 1603 664242 www.archantdialogue.co.uk Liz Ashley EDITOR Mike Waters PRODUCTION EDITOR Richard Berry SENIOR ART EDITOR Matt Copland JUNIOR ART EDITOR Estelle Scott ADVERTISING SALES EXECUTIVE Andy Copland ADVERTISING PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Stuart Meadows ACCOUNT MANAGER Jonathan Arnold EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Zoë Francis-Cox PUBLISHING DIRECTOR Gavin Miller MANAGING DIRECTOR © BRITISH PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION LTD 2014 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING TAKING A SKYDIVING COURSE OR QUALIFICATION ABROAD, WE RECOMMEND YOU FIRST ESTABLISH ITS RELEVANCE IN THE UK, THROUGH YOUR CCI. CONTACT ADVERTISING CONTRIBUTE If you would like to get involved with For advertising enquiries, please contact: Anyone can contribute to Skydive the Mag Skydive The Mag, please contact: and we welcome news, articles and photos Estelle Scott Advertising Sales Executive from everyone, regardless of experience. Editorial enquiries [email protected] +44 (0) 1603 772608 Deadlines you need to know: Club reps and general enquiries [email protected] Issue Copy deadline To reader [email protected] February 2015 January 02 February 17 Andy Copland Advert Production April 2015 February 24 April 16 Competition entries June 2015 April 21 June 03 [email protected] +44 (0) 1603 772896 August 2015 June 16 July 28 October 2015 August 25 October 06 [email protected] skyDIVE December 2014 5 NEWS ZONE Building a record, by Norman Kent Expo Showguide There are a couple of freebies with this Mag – a 2015 Calendar and the Expo Showguide. Skydive the Expo is the new name for the associated events at the BPA AGM on January 24 and you’ll see that we’ve got a whole host of great seminars, speakers, exhibitors and entertainment. If you’re reading this online, the Showguide can also be downloaded from the BPA website. See you there! DIPC FreeflyFreefl yqy sequential 57-way y This Mag will be hitting doormats, As big-way records get bigger, it gets exponentially harder to break them due to the logistics tablets and smartphones at the same involved. You don’t just need more skilled people, but more aircraft, more pilots, more complex time as a large GB delegation will be break-off plans and more caution under canopy. In FS, the current World Record 400-way taking part in the Dubai International has stood since 2006 and new records have moved towards sequential (multi-point) in recent Parachuting Competition from Nov 26- years. It is a category that was not previously pursued as much as the ‘one point, as big as Dec 7. Good luck to all our competitors: we can’ type records and so currently provides more scope for records to be broken. Raykipo in Open 4-way, Team XX in Female 4-way, CRWsaders in CF 4-way Rotations, Freefl ying has recently moved in the same direction at the Live Bigz event in Spaceland, Texas. six swoopers and six Accuracy jumpers. A new World Record 2-point 57-way head down formation was achieved, as well as a 4-point 33-way. In fact, these jumps set a total of 10 records as every World Record jump was also a State and a National Record and the 4-point 33-way also counted as a 3-point 33-way too. sequence, especially during the early infl ation stage, and for that I’ll be using an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) which calculates the robot’s accelerations, its attitude and magnetic bearing in all three axes.