“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo DaVinci
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Russian Record Weekend 2017
1 Comment25 way approved & Record plan shifted to 2018 On 15-17 September members of the Russian Big Canopy Formation Club gathered at DZ Aerograd Kolomna to build a Record 30-way Formation. The weather had different plans and in reality gaveRead More »
Spring Fling 2018 Lake Wales Preview
No CommentsThe winter has not yet arrived, but spring is already in sight Well its that time of the year again to start planning the 2018 Spring Fling. As most of you know the spring fling has grown and the lastRead More »
Flight route planning via Teuge
No CommentsThe latest email to Teuge-DZ Members Mail from Sept, 14 On the basis of all media reports on Lelystad’s proposed alternative flight route, and the consequence of this for Teuge and Paracenter, we have had a crisis consultation today. ThisRead More »
CF experience 2017
No CommentsExperience for bigger things! The Teuge CF crew is hosting the last crEUw big way event for 2017 and are happy to welcome you to Teuge DZ from September 28 till October 1. The goals are: – 16-way base trainingRead More »
crW cats record experience
No Comments‘crW cats’ get together at Parasummer This year, CF at the Parasummer boogie included the first meet for women interested in joining the Women’s (crW) European CF record attempt, which is currently planned for 2018. While some of the moreRead More »
Pärnu in Estonia
2 CommentsParasummer 2017 Fifteen crEUw jumpers from Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, UK, Poland and (this year, for the first time) Russia joined together at the Parasummer Boogie 2017 in Pärnu, Estonia. For the first time in Parasummer history a wholeRead More »
Meet the world at your home DZ
No CommentsWeb Challenge The FAI have launched a web CF challenge for all CF competition disciplines. The competition consists of three rounds, each of which may be practiced as often as desired and the best performance, in the opinion of theRead More »
CF- 8way Web-Challenge 2017
No CommentsTargets for 2017 Last year we were fairly successful and established a European CF-Record. Of course, the 25-way that we made is only the beginning. If we want to go bigger we need better performance. We need to build faster.Read More »
Проект CF в России (Project CF in Russia)
No CommentsThe complement to our project, in Russia After the last two CF national records registered in Russia (a 26-way in 2015 and 18-way sequential in 2016), participants in the Big Canopy Formation project are now preparing to set a newRead More »
Teuge is in distress
3 CommentsOnly up to 5000 feet from 2019? Edwin Boerkamp of the Nationaal Paracentrum Teuge has today, 23.06, sent the following email to all members of the dropzone: Dear Member, This morning, Simon and I went to an information meeting withRead More »
Technical considerations for flying big formations
Flight Technology for big Diamond Formations Equipment Wing Loading Set up Approach Docking Body Position in the Formation Communication Breaking up and starburst Safety – Emergency Standards 1) EQUIPMENT In big formations it is necessary to have canopies with similar
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Preparations for the European Challenge
Points to bear in mind in preparing for record dives FAI Sporting License How to dock Grips in the formation Trim & So 1) FAI Sporting Licence You need to have a valid FAI sporting licence from the corresponding fiscal year!
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Staff
The Staff of the EU CF-Project The leaders of the project introduce themselves. Click on the images to find the sports-vita of the CF-jumpers. To get in touch with us, please use the contact form in the menu under the ‘About’
Motivation of ECF
What do we do? We are the European Canopy Formation Team (ECF), a group of well-known European CF-Skydivers. We fly formations with open parachutes, with friends from all over Europe. We also promote networks for athletes all over the world.
Gallery Directory
Photographers of the various galleries Euro CF 2015: Ming Chu, Laurent Dreyfus and Heikki Kammonen Euro CF 2016: Ming Chu, Laurent Dreyfus and Heikki Kammonen Spring Fling, Florida 2017: Michael Tomaselli alias Chico © cutaway production Teuge Kilo-Team 2017: Laurent Dreyfus and