THE FIRST YEAR

Teams:                         5 Open & 10 Inter

Round 2:         Corowa 28-29 May  (4 rounds)

Round 3:         Bairnsdale 25-26 June (1 round)

Round 4:         Violet Town (16-17 July) (3 rounds)

Round 5:         Pakenham (23-24 July) ( 2 rounds)

Grand Final:    Violet Town (6-7 August) (2 rounds)

Meet Director:             ?

Manifest:                     Wendy Horne

Committee:                 Leanne Knowles, Jenny Kerr, Wendy Horne, Bronwyn Hando, Gail Bradley

Judges:                        Ray Williams, Julie Ward, Denise Hughes, Gail Bradley, Phil Hindley, Vivuu Kilpinen

Inter: 1. Downfall  2. Sledgehammer

                                    Encouragement Award: Relative Chaos

Gillard:                        Ralph Nicholls

Best Cameraflier:        Scott (“Chopper”) Ryan

Sponsors:                     Commandos, Riviera Skysports, Parachutes de France, Ash Kinetic Designs, Relworkers.

Ball:                             MCd by John Rodsted.  Terry Smith & Bronnie Hando did the Gillard Medal count as a “live” count on a whiteboard.

Memorable Events:     The list of rules had 8 rules in it.  Eight new rules were added by the end of the season.

The Committee determined that we had to offer a fuller weekend of jumping, ie: five jumps at least and therefore that larger aircraft than Cessnas should be engaged next year.

Craig Bennett nearly lost his foot on a fence at Bairnsdale, but his nickname had been “Crash” before that anyway.  He got $40 in flowers from Relworkers.

We changed it to be callable on 1 round after really bad weather at Bairnsdale – the old Bairnsdale – not Redcourt yet.

Manifest was a nightmare because most Open jumpers were also on Inter teams, and we allowed Inter players to be on two teams.  A rule was later made to disallow this.