In The Door!
The aircraft's crowded, your mouth's dry
and
you're sitting on the floor with no room to move. The engine noise and
prop blast coming in the open door are a bit intimidating but it's too late to
worry now as you're not booked on the return flight. Suddenly, your thoughts are
interrupted by a shout of 'STAND UP! HOOK UP!' from the
Dispatcher. You
scramble awkwardly to your feet under the combined weight of your main and
reserve 'chutes and hook your static line on the steel cable above your
head that runs the length
of the plane.
'FIRST MAN, IN THE
DOOR!', yells the Dispatcher and everybody shuffles up to keep the stick
tight. Whilst you still feel apprehensive you also feel rising excitement.
Now that it's actually time, you want to get out that door. You glance
round at the others, their faces tense but determined and one of your
mates grins and 
gives
you the thumbs up. You find yourself grinning back.
'GO!' The first man's gone without hesitation and you
envy him as the stick moves forward, boots crashing in time on the floor.The adrenalin is really starting to kick in now and
you can no longer feel
the weight of your equipment. There's just time for a final thought and
you're at the door. The Dispatcher takes the static line as you turn and
look into space and then you're gone. Just four more jumps and those
wings are yours...
The Association organises regular wings courses in Holland and Estonia. Come and jump with us and earn your wings in under a week.
The Netherlands 'B' Brevet
The Estonian Wings
COURSE DATES 2007
Holland Week 1:
29
April
– 5 May 2007
Novice
Round £289, Novice Square (RAPS) £375, Refresher £225, Last Year £175
5 jump course aimed at Novice and Refresher parachutists. Travel and lodgings extra contact us now!
Estonia:
3
June - 10 June 2007
Cost
£275. Free sleeping arrangements or B&B at extra cost, Flights about
£70 - £250
5+ jump course Includes Night Jump and Water Jump (Subject to confirmation) contact us now!
Holland Week 2:
TBC
All courses are offered subject to availability.
Please note that all applicants for Estonian courses must already be military qualified and in date.
Space on each course is limited and the courses are filling up fast. To confirm prices and reserve your place, contact us now!
Course members are required to have a valid medical certificate confirming their fitness to parachute. The upper weight limit is in the region of 15 stones or 95.5 kilos in combat dress including boots and helmet.
Combat dress will be worn for all courses. Military helmets will be checked for suitability. Boots should not have speed lacing hooks to avoid catching parachute rigging lines. If hooks are present these must be taped in a manner acceptable to the Directing Staff prior to jumping.
Upon completion of these courses, serving personnel may wear their brevet of qualification on the right breast of their uniform subject to approval by their Commanding Officer. See Qrs. Material Regulations, Volume 3, Pam 15,Para. 301-306. It should be noted that your Commanding Officer's decision is final!
Serving personnel must also note Qrs. Chapter 5 J5.369
Any individual wearing any badge, brevet wings or other emblem is to be so entitled by virtue of current or past service or qualification.
Course members are also reminded that it is a criminal offence to wear uniform or insignia that portray one as being a member or ex-member of a particular Regiment with intent to deceive.
A Wings Course get their knees in the breeze from a C-47 Dakota
The drop goes in...