#Profile: Team 2B
Entering 2WD
Flyer 1: Michele Cnops BELGIUM
- +40 years old
- +150 hours tunnel time
- +2800 jumps
- Aircraft engineer for living, organizes skydive events like B-Boogie
Flyer 2: Pieter Vanderhaeghen BELGIUM
- 27 years old
- 100 hours tunnel time
- 1500 jumps
- Tunnel instructor at Airspace
Background
This is a new team formed late in the year. Peter works at Airspace wind tunnel and Misch jumps at Schaffen dropzone. She was a judge at Charlewars, and was persuaded by Marta from Windoor to come and play at the Extreme Games Windoor competition.
2B have done about 3 hours on various evenings in Airspace before coming to Windoor and doing another hour and a half. They didn’t have much time to train because after Charlewars Mich was very busy organising the B-Boogie. They started training right after that. Peter is the lead flyer and Mich follows.
2B are only entering the 2way competition, as ‘we couldn’t find anyone crazy enough to join us for the 4WD’. Peter and Mich have flown together before as a 4WD team, and competed in the Battle of Bottrop. At that time Mich had formed a team with 3 girls but one dropped out so ‘we asked Peter to be our fourth girl’.
For Bottrop they did about 12 hours of training. Then Misch found it super hard core as ‘it was my first layout never mind the dynamic flying! … Just being in the tunnel with 4 people was crazy, very scary!”
What are your goals?
Well we really had a lot of fun training – we’re purely here for the fun and the learning. It’s interesting to see what can you do in another tunnel. It’s very different.
How is it different to Airspace?
Windoor is round whereas Airspace is octagonal. So at Airspace the references are easier. Also the lines are in a different position relative to the door so that makes a big difference, my references are now outside the tunnel. It’s screwing with my head, I don’t know where I am or what’s going on!
So how is it going?
It wasn’t going so well flying here, so we booked another hour and a half of ‘emergency time’, an hour at 1am and half an hour this morning at 7. Last night was really bad, I was making so many mistakes, I was all over the place. So, overnight I thought to myself ‘calm down, think, reset’. Then I looked at the walls of the tunnel and saw some black, vertical construction lines, and thought that I can use those as a reference and – finally – this morning’s session at 7am [on the morning of the competition], it was better… Much better.
