posted Dec 27th, 2007 - The last update of the Bodyflight Storm situation after winning the UK Nationals 2007 was posted on 26 November 2007. The new British national 4-way team in the Open Class had completed a windtunnel training camp in Bedford, together with Perris Fury. The camp included 2-on-2 sessions with members of both teams flying together.

The NSL News was hoping to get some video footage of this training camp, and these videos are still in the works. However, Storm's Claire "Sparky" Scott already followed up with new team information before the arrival of the Fury-Storm videos.

First of all, the latest update from the United Kingdom included late Christmas greetings from Bodyflight Storm. The photos show that Hannah Betts, Claire Scott, Sarah Smith and Kate Stephens enjoyed the Christmas fun jump and gave team videographer Gary Wainwright a lot of smiles.

Claire "Sparky" Scott also informed the NSL News that her team had just returned from its first training camp after the UK Nationals 2007. Bodyflight Storm completed 120 training jumps from a Twinotter, and it was a challenging camp.

The UK national 4-way team has to jump from the right-hand door of the Pilatus Porter at the World Championship of Formation Skydiving 2008 in France. As many other teams, the four British ladies have to change their continuity plan, mostly for the exits and the sub-terminal phase of the jumps.

The first camp after qualifying as UK's national 4-way team was still held from the Twinotter with a left-hand door. However, Bodyflight Storm used the camp to train for the other door by pretending to exit from a Pilatus Porter, as Claire "Sparky" Scott explained:

"We have started training in our mirrored quadrants, which is to be our plan from the Porter. This means that we had to change our exits from the Twinotter. We were floating them, so that we could still train our mirrored continuity plan on the hill."

She said that the camp was successful. However, she also added that there was hard work involved and that not everything was perfect all the time: "As you would expect, we contributed some footage to our bloopers video... However by the end of the camp the exits were starting to feel more familiar."

The NSL News had already reported on 11 December 2007 how the Canadian national 4-way team Evolution needed some time to get familiar with the right-hand door of the Pilatus Porter.

The Bodyflight Storm members know that there is more hard work to come, as the team's next training camp will be held from a real Pilatus Porter, as Sparky added: "We are looking forward to our next camp where we are hoping to make our first jumps from the Porter, which again will be another learning experience in terms of exits."

The NSL News hopes to receive footage of the "Storm Bloopers" and the first exits from the Pilatus Porter, as well. Claire "Sparky" Scott said that the last camp ended in good spirits: "It was not all hard work though – we did manage to include some Christmas spirit into one of our last training jumps."

Happy New Year to the whole universal 4-way community. Blue Skies - Go Compete in 2008.