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Success! BritlOO Special Inside a discussion of the aad’s affect on our sport handy hints from a national champion NORTH POLE ADVENTURE August 99 on your own but not alone Photo: Hans Berggren AIRTEC Mittelstrasse 69 Tel. +49 2953 9899 D-33181 Wunnenberg Fax +49 2953 1293 Do not solely rely upon the CYPRES as a life-saving device. Stay current and practice your emergency procedures. PARA E D IT O R IA L: S T Lesley Gale THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH PARACHUTE ASSOCIATION Managing Editor S kyd ive 3 Burton Street Peterborough PE1 5HA Tel/Fax: 01733 755860 E-mail: [email protected] editorial the magazine of www.skydivemag.com This issue we bring you an extra eight pages of your all-singing, all ADVERTISING: dancing magazine. The fir s t ever 68 page Mag (just one short!). Jackie Green How can we do this? Our new print/advertising company Warners Warners Group Publications Pic have sold more advertising, this revenue goes to improve quality. O f West Street Bourne, Lines PE10 9PH the usual 60 pages, 8 have been paid fo r as an extra and will always Tel: 01778 393313 be used for editorial (as I promised you at the '98 ASM). Of the Fax: 01778 394748 remaining 52 pages, if the number of ad pages goes over 40% (ie, The British E-mail: [email protected] 21 pages), we will increase the size of the Mag to accommodate Parachute this. This is a great issue to add pages to, see page 28 onwards fo r Design and layout: Association Julie Gray and Trish Jones a special BritlOO report of the new British record achieved at Patron: His Royal Highness CCP Ltd, Brookfield Park The Prince of Wales Lincoln Road Langar during July. Peterborough PE4 6LD June Mag Wharf Way, Glen Parva, Tel: 01733 579433 Fax: 01733 578584 Leicester LE2 9TF E-mail 106304.677@ compuserve.com We apologise unreservedly for the cock-up in the mailing of the Tel: 0116 278 5271 June Mag. 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George Pilkington Council Matters Classified Adverts BPA Clubs and Centres Club News Sky Times Advertisers Index Freeflyer Adrian Nicholas took this shot of a completed 50-way on © sk y d iv e the route to the BritlOO national record 100-way, see page 28 All rights reserved. No pari of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form: electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, without permission of the Editor. The views expressed in skydive are those of the contributors and not necessarily those ol the BPA. The Editor retains the right to withdraw any advertisement at her discretion and does not accept liability for delay in publication or for errors, although every care is taken lo avoid mistakes. The information in this magazine was. to the best of our ability correct at the time of going to press. Reproduction, printing and mailing lakes a total of 3 weeks so some information may be out of date or superseded. Cover Photo: by Adrian Nicholas shows an exit s h o t fro m B ritlO O o v e r L a n g a r NOTE: Some of the photos contained in this magazine may show skydivers without helmets, in which case they were jumping abroad. In the UK it is mandatory to wear a helmet for obvious safety reasons. Scottish Nationals..........6 Full report from the meet at Strathallan Bang, You’re Alive . 25 AADs, an evaluation of its affect on the sport Langar Boogie ............ 16 Shots and happenings from their big aircraft boogie S p o ttin g ............ 25 Katharine Andrewes gives advice to ensure a safe exit and a good landing B ritlO O . 28 Brit 100 special report and photo spectacular North P o le .............. 46 Jon Nash brings back photos and details from his trip to the top S n ip p ets...............49 Kiwi happenings and Skydive Daytona Beach A u g u s t 99 Steve Swallow’s awesome G92 piloted by TK provided rapid urbine power, good turnarounds for sixteen 4-way, three 8-way teams plus freeflyers and fun jumpers. Strathallan’s own Islander, C206 and pilots did friends and great a great job hauling the four CF teams and 13 accuracy vibes, together with competitors to altitude. This year’s Scottish Nationals also incorporated the BPA Northern Regionals. new faces, blue skies and Scotland’s first freefly Ann Johnson’s SSPA committee worked hard throughout the weekend to ensure the whole meet ran smoothly. Kieran Brady competition made the last as Meet Director, Karen Farr as CCI and John Hitchen as John Hitchen proved to be a resolute triumvirate, keeping jumpers weekend in May one to skydiving safely for another incident-free nationals. Respect is remember! especially due to Karen who was spending her first weekend as CCI of the club. This weekend saw one small step for groovers but one giant leap for freefly kind in Scotland thanks to Tim Porter and Roger Flynn. Tim was on the DZ to provide freefly coaching for anybody interested. The small but steadily growing school of Scottish freeflyers took advantage of Tim’s presence to gain FF1 and FF2 qualifications. Well, the newly endorsed dudes just had to show what they could do! Two teams contested the title over three rounds. In the end Team Atomik were victorious over 2SG by only one point. Roger Flynn, recognised as one of the top judges in the world in this field gave useful feedback to competitors, providing a solid base for future competitions. 'T T ^ k This year the vibes were so good the Star was dead quiet. Honest! Well okay, only for an hour on Sunday night when chief video flyer Eddie Jones screened the FS competition dives on the big TV. Every available vantage point was taken as more than 50 competitors watched each other’s performances. The unjumper like hush was only punctuated by congratulatory applause in recognition of hot skydives. The Star Hotel was, of course, the focus (or not!) of each evening after Also giving the vibeometer a large swing to the good side were jumping finished.