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fly girls 2025
Date: September 20/21, 2025
Location: SA Skydiving Langhorne Creek Dropzone
Attendees: 24
Skydivers, Instructors, Coaches, Pilots, Ground crew and sponsors, we thank you.
The female jumping community in South Australia gathered over the weekend for the return of the Fly Girls initiative – to support and grow an environment for female skydivers that is safe, supportive, inspiring and fun.
We had registered participants with jump numbers ranging from 10 to 5,500, across all experience levels.
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friday night champagne meet & greet
The weekend started with a Friday evening Champagne meet and greet with a grazing platter, giving everyone the opportunity to meet new faces and plan out the weekend.
Aimee Southwell, flew in from QLD to coach the event and gave a welcome to everyone, outlining the history and goals of the event, as well as introducing her fellow coaches, Yvonne Ullmer and Ariel White, both taking on a coaching / load organising role for the first time. She also spoke of the event founder Jana Fitzpatrick and how the event honours her and her vision for supporting female skydiving.
Saturday Jumping & Panel
The weekend’s weather held out for most people, with only those on student restrictions unable to jump. We sent coached 15 loads.
Saturday evening we had a panel, put together by Tiarne Easley, Louise Hosking, Aimee Southwell and for a male perspective, Zack Rosser. The idea of the panel was to discuss and explore some of the opportunities, challenges and experiences female skydives experience in their skydiving journey. The participants found this very valuable and inspiring.
saturday night dj + prom night theme
There was then a “Girls just want to have fun” party on Saturday night, with a dress them of “Prom / that dress you’ve never had the right event to wear”, with the boys on the dropzone also getting around the theme.
Sunday morning we fired up a few loads before mother nature got the best of us. We then ran a seminar on clouds and cloud jumping operations.
This event really brought the female community together, saw progression in multiple disciplines, and gave two local jumpers the opportunity to step up into coaching roles.
what the girls thought
“Just want to say thankyou so much to everyone involved with Fly Girls 2025…..meant so much to me being able to attend and listen to such a good panel share and watch all of the women progressing in this amazing sport.. I feel blessed to be beginning my entry into this amazing sport, i felt supported and empowered all weekend. There was such a great passing of knowledge and experience from a group of strong, intelligent progressive women! Thankyou, thankyou so much……this weekend was super special to me and I will take it with me into my future.”
‘Had an absolute blast and am so grateful to every one of you!! Was an amazing environment ❤”
“It. Was. Perfect. Such an amazing group of people! Cannot wait for the next one.
Also have been inspired to just have a crack at my next BRELs when I am over next. And even if I fail I am working on those skills! Thanks to the panel members for the inspo 🥰”
Thank yous!
We sincerely thank those who supported this event. Thanks first and foremost to the participants, it was amazing to see the girls take over the dropzone.
Thanks to our coaches, Aimee, Yvi and Ariel.
And thanks to our sponsors
Local Sponsors
Red Cacao
Faithwood Chapel
Crooked Designs
Sponsors
APF
SA Parachute Council
Cookie
Jyro
Downward Trend
iFly Gold Coast
L&B Altimeters
Intrudair
Vertical Suits
Vertex Suits
The Flying Nachos
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