Bokdrol

You've illustrated my point/s precisely. Thank you. (1) NHS is staffed with immigrants, but not ILLEGAL immigrants as these freeloaders are. (2) I'm hoping that you got the sarcasm in my France 'warzone' statement - it's a perfectly safe country for them to settle in as were the other countries they transited to get to France - just because the French and others are harsh on them (as we need to be) doesn't give them the right to row their boats over here to the perceived land of milk and honey. They are illegal, they are economic migrants (despite what pub quiz captain said in his migrant dissertation - yaaaawn - earlier). They need to go.

From your flag you are a Canadian....check my initial post......

If you REALLY need to ask this question, then you clearly wouldn't understand the explanation.

The greatest threat to the UK comes not from overprivileged ex public shooolboys in office, it comes from 'New' Labour, which is these days simply a badly patched version of the Tories. Lead by a limp-wristed millionaire Knight of the Realm and his harpy deputy, they would take us further down the drain that was started by the other millionaire new-labourite-warmonger Blair. Let's not even talk about the Marxist terrorist sympathiser Corbyn. If Labour want to get back into power they need to go back to being the party of the working class and stop being Tory re-treads. Until that time BoJo is the man, suck it up.

And yet we have our own citizens living rough/sleeping under the arches/dying of exposure/selling Big Issue to earn a crust - Wow - makes perfect sense to let all the freeloaders in, doesn't it??

Yeah, really awful in France where they just left, isn't it?? Total warzone ROFL ......the fact is the French don't make it 'easy' for them, nor do the Germans, nor do any of the other multiple countries they've transited to get to the land of perceived 'easy' benefits and free housing. Our veterans and homeless have to go to the foodbank while these wasters get it all. BS back at you x 2.

Refugees from France and other EU countries that they've had to transit??? Don't make me laugh. They're coming here for a free ride and so I hope they like sunny Rwanda. In the immortal words of Bart Simpson 'Hey immigrants, country's full'.

These people are mainly economic migrants, coming to the UK for what they see as a free lunch in a 'soft touch' country. Unlike Ukraine, where we have welcomed women and children whose men have stayed behind to fight for their country, these freeloaders, who are often in the main male, have transited through many safe countries on their way to their perceived meal ticket in Great Britain. If you don't live in the UK, feel free to zip it, your comments are irrelevant. If you do live in the UK, wake up and look around you. The country is too small to simply open it's borders to whoever wants to come here and is already creaking at the seams due to overload on our social services, all to the detriment of it's legitimate citizens.

Get yourself to Seville. Short cheap flights from the UK. Dornier/s up to 15K, jump all year round, although they cut off early in the hot summer months. Nice city to visit. There are BPA (I still can't say BS) instructors on site if you need a check out jump etc. The DZ has a house in Bollulos (sp) where jumpers can stay for a pittance or you could stay at the Domocenter in Bormujos where loads of jumpers stay, quite cheap. Many base jumpers skydive there too so you can get the in's and out's and make good contacts. Don't go to Algarve - last I heard there was a 1000 jump limit at the DZ due to safety concerns for 'inexperienced' jumpers. May have changed by now of course.

BA. Hope it all goes well for you.

As an ex Rhodesian serviceman, educated in South Africa (RSA) and an Afrikaans speaker (of sorts) in my opinion you are largely correct on the Afrikaans aspect. Although many Rhodesians had a smattering of Afrikaans, the local slang/patois which had migrated up from RSA had an amalgam of African/Afrikaans and English (called chilapalapa or fanagalo and initially used by overseers to communicate with the migrant labour on the mines in RSA, where men from dozens of different ethnicities and languages were employed) and which most Rhodesians of all creeds could use to communicate with each other. Afrikaans was not taught in Rhodesian schools but there were communities (e.g. Enkeldoorn which is Afrikaans for Single/Lone Thorn) where Afrikaans was spoken as the first language. Most Rhodesians seldom if ever said Yes, it was always Ja, your Brother was your Boet, Hello was Hoesit (short for hoe gaan dit) and so on. Rhodesian military slang, especially R.L.I. was unique and also used a some Afrikaans. Here Endeth The Lesson (just to keep the Biblical context going lol).

Would be interesting to hear your feedback from your trip. I am married to a South African who recently returned home to the UK , seamlessly, from Cape Town - hence my earlier opinion that this is media driven BS. The travel chaos thingie is real. It'll be more of an issue during the summer holidays (late June/July/August) when many families are trying get away to catch the European sun which can be so elusive here in the UK.

Never realised that Ryanair had a vested interest in who came to the UK - the whole scenario smells of clickbait kak to me. If News24 are run along the same lines as 99.999% of other media outlets, then it is BS.

Watched it on Thursday here in the UK and although I'm not a pilot, so can't really relate to the flying scenes, I thought it was brilliant - even got a lump in my throat at times which is unusual for me. I watched the original a few days earlier just to get me up to speed. A few years ago while I was at Elsinore I drove down to Oceanside? and saw - what I was told was...- the house that was used for the romantic scenes in the original. The whole area had been cleared and just this house (painted blue at the time) was there. Maybe it still is there? Also drove to Miramar which by then was USMC - wow, writing this now I didn't think I was such a geek.... as an aside the DZ I jump at in the UK has a pop-up windtunnel on it which was used for the recent Mission Impossible movie/s and a couple of weeks ago stunt men were doing jumps from a helicopter at the DZ where they set a canopy on fire - don't ask me how - and then cut it away. I guess it will all come out in the wash and cgi will have it shown in Eastern Europe...

Not too dissimilar to my Level 1 - primary instructor told me after the jump that I got confused when my alti went to 12000' (therefore showing zero) and I kept asking 'what height are we at?' like a bloody fuckawee bird. Then to the door...no check in, check out etc. just straight out! Don't remember too much about the freefall, until I was under canopy. I put it all down to extreme hyperventilating nervousness....still it did improve from then on and I now have over 900 jumps in my logbook which, in the overall scheme of things, is not that many but is a big deal for me. Blue Skies and Vasbyt.

I was diagnosed with a BCC (basal cell carcinoma) on my nose about 5 years ago. This was after seeing a Twitter post from that Aussie Bloke who starred in Wolverine and who had a Dr friend point out that he had a BCC on his nose which needed seeing to. He (Wolverine) advised people to keep an eye out for the symptoms. Posted a picture of his nose with a blemish on it and I thought, hey, I've got one of those too....Having grown up in Africa and served in the forces there I never used sunblock.... until I got to England.....don't laugh, the sun can get fierce here too. On a positive note, a BCC is unlikely to prove fatal and the treatment in the UK is free. I've had it removed and now have just a slight scar/patch on my nose. So to all you skydivers who live in hot sunny countries, keep your eyes peeled and watch out for little light coloured patches on (mainly) your face, and which might appear unannounced. And use F50 sunblock. On a more humorous note, there was a C list celeb here in the UK who got a bit of tabloid press a few years ago, having 'survived a cancer scare'. Turns out it was (only) a BCC, not really life threatening, but they did up their profile for a day or two. Seriously though, all the best to any C sufferers out there and 'vasbyt' as they say in the SA Military.

Quite right and something that FF beginners possibly don't think enough about. I was going to comment on this post earlier but because I'm a pretty mediocre OAP skydiver/freeflyer, who also flies like a bit of a plank, I thought I'd STFU. But this was one of the points I was 'going' to make, with the addition of, if you don't sit correctly (i.e. you have a natural de-arch) you can end up flying backwards, and at some speed too, which can be problematic for groups who have exited before/after you, esp. if you are facing up/down the jump run.

The only issues I have ever had with Seville are (1) they put up a 100/200/500 jump limit fairly sharply which, at times, can limit the jumps for less experienced jumpers (2) the shortened jumping day in mid-summer as you have stated already (3) the concrete hard/sloping landing area. There are plenty of off landing areas, though - especially important when you are last out on a 4 way freefly and the pilot will only do one pass lol. Having said that, I give it 8/10.

It was a hot topic at our DZ around the time they changed to B.S! I worked for a company called Union Transport International and they actually changed their name to UTI.....medical folk will understand.

British Skydiving (formerly B.P.A, now B.S. ) do an excellent calendar every year which is sent out with the December Mag to all members. I'm sure some kind soul at B.S. would let you have a 2022 calendar for a promise of a beer. A 2021 calendar won't last as long.

OK so I've heard that Virgin Silver and Insure&Go offer our cover - second hand info but you might want to try them.

I asked at DZ today but no luck - sorry

Soz - I'm still digging around but if I find anything I'll let you know. Will ask at DZ tomorrow and see if I get a result there. As said in my earlier message, double check with insure4sport to set your mind at ease, one way or another.

Mick Patch I'm sending this because you are a UK jumper and I assume you are using insure4sport to jump outside the UK: I also went on the Insure4sport site as I have previously insured my USA and Spain trips through IHI-Bupa and Towergate, neither of whom offer cover for us any more. I thought I would drill down a bit as, on the face of it, insure4sport seemed perfect. I contacted their helpline via e-mail and asked a load of questions. This is the final reply I received; '' We can cover the equipment against damage and theft. We can provide personal accident cover this is more of a benefit policy so provides cover if you suffer serious injury for instance broken arm. It just doesn’t provide cover when are outside of the UK for medical bills or repatriation.'' So on the face of this, if you were jumping at say, Elsinore, and had to be hospitalised due to a skydiving injury, you wouldn't be insured under their cover. I can send you the e-mail thread privately if you give me your e-mail address but I would say that, depending on what overseas jumping cover you require, you should double check that you are safe with insure4sport. Cheers

The French have never forgotten the ignominy of having to have the USA and UK pull their fat from the fire (OK, only the twice...) in the 20th century and for the added insult having to beg the English to give their government in exile safe haven during WW2 when De Gaulle had to cut and run from La France with his tail between his 'Free French' legs. That and the various bloody noses they have received from the UK in previous centuries. In the UK we don't expect anything from France other than obstruction, pettiness and beacuoup toys tossed from la perambulator.