We had fun being back at the incredible Skydive Dubai in order to participate at another one of the Instructor Examiner Courses held by USPA President Jay Stokes. Marcus assisted Jay in the course and Julian participated for the first time as he is working on getting his Coach Examiner Rating soon. It was a pleasure seeing old faces back and making new friends. Congratulations to all participants for the successful completion of this I/E IRC!

We are happy and proud of Konstantinos who discovered the fascination of freefall even though he is tied to his wheelchair on regular days. This handicap did not stop him from skydiving and it was our honor to assist him on this adventure and to be able to make his dream come true! All thumbs up for this great experience!

Our last course day in Spain. And last but definitely not least, we congratulate the CI of Skydive Empuriabrava Richard Pym for the achievement of his USPA ratings and are happy to hand over another one of our USPA AFF-I patches. Congrats and thanks for the hospitality!

A special thanks goes out also to Jane, Nigel and Pol for their great assistance on the course!

The next one in line for the USPA AFF-I patch is the very experienced Sandrine Timmermans who works as a skydive instructor in Dubai. Sandrine has been teaching in the sport already for many years. Well deserved and congratulations.

While still at Skydive Empuriabrava, we held also an USPA AFF Instructor Course.  One of our former candidates returned and went for his AFF-I evaluations. He was well prepared and managed with flying colors. Congratulations to Krzysztof Kacprzak (UK) for his newly gained AFF-I rating.

We are back at Skydive Empuriabrava Spain fort he conducting of a USPA Coach Rating Course. We welcome two German participants and congratulate them for achieving their first hurdle and for being the new USPA Coaches:

– Markus Rodeck
– Martin Barthau

Another one of our former course participant came from Italy. Vincenzo was not able to complete his jumps and travelled this weekend to Greece in order to undergo his AFF evaluations under the supervision of USPA I/E Marcus Laser. Vincenzo prepared himself well and showed great performance. It is our pleasure to announce him as a new USPA AFF Instructor. Congratulations and have a wonderful season ahead!

Another busy weekend for us at GFFC and we greet Fernando Baes from Spain for his visit. Fernando decided to book himself into the Tandem Instructor Course according to USPA and UPT syllabus. After 4 days of training, we can congratulate him for a great performance and for achieving his new Tandem Rating. Well done and best of luck for a great upcoming season!

For the two experienced tandem instructors from Russia Peter and Anton, it was easy going to challenge their ratings and to convert into the manufacturer UPT Rating for Sigma and Vector. They used this opportunity to travel to Greece and to train with I/E Marcus Laser. Well done, guys and congratz to the achievement of this goal as well.

The winter was hard and the weather did not allow for some of our former course participants to complete their jumps and evaluations. We therefore organized just for them a AFF-I evaluation weekend under the Greek sun of GFFC. With perfect jump conditions, we are pleased to announce that there are six new USPA AFF instructors! Congratulations to Peter, Aleksey, Daria, Anton, Roser and Dorin and best of luck with your future student work!