April 2025 Newsletter

News

April showers? Think again! We’ve been truly blessed with some incredible weather to kick off 2025. Let’s hope the trend continues!

Not only have Nick Davison and Dean Savage been keeping the regular load organising going but we’ve had plenty of events, too. Jim Bradwell’s troops were out in force for his load organising in March and April saw the wingsuit Flying Circus crew tearing up the skies across Lincolnshire.

Last year, a few of you asked for canopy courses so you got them! Pete Allum, Phil Webley and Paul Dorward have blessed us with their presence for Flight-1 courses and to top off April, Simon Brentford hosted his 6-Way Speed, FS and Accuracy competition. If any of you are keen to host an event or load organise, contact us and we will find the best time to fit you in to our busy calendar.

We would like to welcome back a couple of members of the Hib team! Logan and Andy have returned from their time away in tropical climates (we prefer the Great British winter, personally) and we also welcome Jake to the team. They will all be with us for the season before inevitably chasing the weather again at the end of the year.

Just as a reminder, we are now in the new British Skydiving membership year. Make sure you have valid membership before you start jumping with us again.

Achievements

• A Licence – Chris Hurrell, Mark Rowson, Steve Housden & Luke Porter
• FF1 – Denise Robson
• FF2 – Alex Rastin
• TR1 – Tony Norman
• TR2 – Dmitry Shkurin
• 400 jumps – Kieran Toher
• 2000 jumps – Dean Savage

Events

Let’s hope May and June continue to provide us with glorious weather! Here’s what you can expect:

May

• 3rd – Tracking & Freefly Progression with Nick Davison
• 11th – Falling For Fun with Bradley Shelton
• 17th/18th – BUS Multi-Plane Mania
• 24th – Tracking Progression with Dean Savage
• 24th – Flight-1 101
• 25th – Flight-1 102
• 24th/25th – Multi-Plane Formations with Flanders & Fab

June

• 7th-15th – Free2Fly with Manfi & Chris Sears
• 13th-15th – Multi-plane Multi-point with Jim Bradwell