Noise Complaints and Bad Weather The reality of Running a DZ in the UK

Skydive the Expo 2024 Seminars
Title: "Noise Complaints and Bad Weather - The Reality of Running a DZ in the UK"
Speaker: Alex “Buzz” Busby Hicks - CI, Skydive Tilstock Freefall Club
A short presentation about the reality of running a small DZ in the UK, from dealing with difficult customers, noise complaints and UK weather, safeguarding issues and what we have learned from running the Women’s Weekender.
📢 About the speaker 📢
Buzz served in the Army for 22 years, the last five of those as an instructor at the Rhine Army Parachute Association (RAPA) in Bad Lippsringe, Germany, he left the Army in 2006 and became the CI at Tilstock in 2010, he is an AI/IE/CSI/TI(G)
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