It can now be confirmed that jumping will take place at Middle Wallop DZ each weekend during the MRX. Dates of Middle Wallop jumping are 18/19 February, 25/26 February 3/4 March and 10/11 March. Jumping will be for A Licence jumpers and above.

In order to ensure the smooth running of the weekend operation, APA instructor, reception, tandem, manifest and DZ control staff please note the following:

All weekend DZ staff (instructors, DZ Ctrl, manifest and reception) are to attend the morning coord meeting with either Mike Smith or Rob Camps to discuss the daily jump programme. This will take place at 0815 in the main APA office and should take nomore then 5 minutes. Many thanks for your co-operation!

There are numerous caravan owners that still owe the annual fee of £237.98. The deadline for payment has now passed and caravans will shortly be removed and disposed of. If you have a caravan and not paid, either pay the bill or arrange removal ASAP!!!!!!!

In order to ensure the smooth running of the jump programme for RAPS students, please take note of the following change:

All RAPS & Static Line Students are to be ready for refresher training at 0830 on both Sat & Sun mornings. If this time cannot be made, the next refresh will be approx 1200 subject to availability by the Duty Instructor. It is strongly recommended that you be there for the morning refresh!!

A Suggestions/Feedback folder will be held in the weekend reception that is for the use of all APA jumpers. Any comments (positive or negative) from the weekend activity that are entered into the folder will be discussed and reviewed. This facility is for the good and benefit of the club and therefore should not be abused.

The DZ is now closed for mid week jumping. Mid week jumping will start again on Friday 16 March 2012.

There has been numerous occasions where fire fighting equipment has been tampered with, both in the main hanger and the bunkhouse. While this may seem like a laugh to some, it is an offense to misuse an extinguisher under the Health & Safety at Work Actwith criminal prosecution being a sanction. Anyone caught tampering with life saving equipment is likey to receive an indefinate ban from the APA. You wouldn't tamper with an AAD so why is a fire extinguisher any different?

Should a gap exceeding 1 month and up to 3 months elapse since the last recorded revision training, the basic training syllabus must be revised including a written examination. This must be recorded in the Training Record Card or Log book. Should a break of 3 months or more elapse, then the full basic training syllabus must be revised or complete training if necessary. Again this must be recorded in the training Record Card or Log Book.