Balloon jumps in Europe???

[skydivejersey 0]

Anyone know where these can be done?

[nacmacfeegle 0]

Oft promised seldom realised, best bet for UK, would be the Bristol balloon festival, or equivalent somewhere on the continent.
I know of a couple of peeps who have jumped at the BBF. Its not regular, so may take some paperwork and a large amount of folding moolah.
Google and spend the weekend on the phone, good luck.

http://www.blastvalve.com/Balloon_Festivals/Foreign/United_Kingdom/index.shtml might help.

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[vt1977 0]

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Anyone know where these can be done?

I have known balloon jumps to happen at Empuriabrava Christmas boogies.

I'm not too sure about anywhere in Britian. Headcorn managed one balloon lift about a year ago but as far as I know there has been nothing since.

hth

Vicki

[skydivejersey 0]

Hey mac. When you getting to get your but over to our neck and come jump our little island. The LET will be leaving Peter Lee on Sunday 6th if you need a lift. Will be fun. Would even go as far as buying you a beer.
And don't give me anymore rot about family commitments..

[Remster 24]

Empuria has them fairly regularly.

Remster

[garyharbird 0]

Hi Alun

After looking at your profile i would recommend accumulating a few more jumps before doing a balloon jump.
I have several balloon jumps and the problem with them is that the landing area can be anywhere, due to the balloon not having a engine you are subject to the wind, I have 4 balloon jumps and have never landing on an airfield always in some field in the countryside, this brings up the problem of terrain and that judging hills and slopes from under canopy can be difficult, also the are other obstacles such as wires and fences which you can't really see until you are right on top of them.
Heres my advise, wait get a couple hundred jumps and then go make a balloon jump, they are always gonna be around.
Safe jumps and blue skies
if you have anymore questions pm me

Gary Harbird

[shunkka 0]

if i know well in portugal at : http://www.skydive-portugal.com/ and in spain at empuria brava are some session of baloon junps

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[GRU 0]

we are doing the ballon jump from the 12-person baloon in Bia³ystok in Poland on friday 27.06.2003 cheers (we can organise this kind of event)

fly free
GRU

[Dazzle 0]

Empuria had them fairly regulaarly - however at last christmas Richie wasn't organising them. He said something about moreregulation / liability issues and wasn't doing them until he'd sorted that out.

Don't know if they've sorted them out since then.

[cptfunky 0]

Hi!

for the south of Germany see http://www.limesballooning.de (in german).

bs,
m

[darthsilver 0]

At the Swedish Friflaj Festival in Skane we have balloonjumping every morning all week.

Check it out
www.friflaj.com

But as Gary said, get more jumps before you do it. In Sweden there´s a rule that you have to have at least C-license, or 200 jumps, to make a balloonjump.

Blue Sky - Black Death ::: May the force be with you

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[mccordia 73]

If there's anough people that want to jump, a guy at our DZ (Holland) can basicly make it happen anytime you'd want...

Our club actualy made 2 world records last month (30 ppl from a balloon, 20 ppl launched at the same time)

You'd have to make a trip to holland though :)

JC
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[skydivejersey 0]

Trip to holland sound like fun... lots of extra curricular activities if the weather is bad

Which DZ is that???? I have friends that regularly jump at Tessel and know a fair few of the instructors from there as they came and took tandems at our last boogie.
Al.

[mccordia 73]

PM me, I'll see if we can make this work for you...

JC
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