Mar 20, 2009, 6:48 AM
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Not Including Beer.
What number ya get?
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Mar 20, 2009, 7:37 AM
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I've dropped upwards of $20K jumping so far in just lift tickets and then another $8-9000 in gear including multiple video cameras and stills along the way. Toss in travel costs and tunnel time and I'm sitting at about $40-42K. My Fiance has spent about $10-12K over slightly less time.
Looking at what we are going to spend this year our total will be up another $4-6k at least, maybe more.
Mar 20, 2009, 7:50 AM
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I've dropped upwards of $20K jumping so far in just lift tickets and then another $8-9000 in gear including multiple video cameras and stills along the way. Toss in travel costs and tunnel time and I'm sitting at about $40-42K. My Fiance has spent about $10-12K over slightly less time.
Looking at what we are going to spend this year our total will be up another $4-6k at least, maybe more.
Mar 20, 2009, 8:50 AM
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If I could retrieve the fortune I have spent Worrying where it came from not caring where it went I could live the heady lifestyle of Playboy magazine I would see the worldly sights, that still remain unseen.
I must amount to thousands I've squandered on the sport The mark of any jumper a balance close to nought But if I had it back in one financial lump I'd go south in the winter and jump and jump and jump.
Mar 20, 2009, 10:15 AM
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$28.74- that's jumps so far and the gear to get me going in the sport. i don't think i'll be buying any gear soon so the number will go down as the year progresses.
but the friends and memories i've made so far are priceless.
Mar 20, 2009, 10:47 AM
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Going through the numbers I can reconstruct, about $8 a jump.
Must get a lot of free jumps
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Mar 20, 2009, 11:02 AM
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>Must get a lot of free jumps
Well, the estimates I used were:
1000 student jumps (AFF/tandem) 200 first jump courses (per student) 100 video jumps 50 working jumps (commercials, demos etc)
So those I actually got paid for.
300 jumps as an organizer of one kind or another
So those were free.
2500 fun jumps for normal price 350 team jumps at slightly higher rates (team discount but add in video) 400 bigway jumps at significantly higher rates
Those cost the money.
(And of course gear - three new rigs to date and an assortment of used ones - jumpsuits, camera helmet etc)
Mar 20, 2009, 11:38 AM
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I started last year so the number is a bit skewed. If I count in everything skydiving related (jumps, gear, trips, licensing fees and whatnot) the total is about 8300 eur and I got 140 jumps last year so for last year its about 60 eur per jump.
I don't really care though. Whatever it costs I'll pay it as long as I get to skydive.
Mar 20, 2009, 12:47 PM
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I don't like to think too much on how much I have spent on skydiving. Most of my jumps have been at Skydive Dallas and they keep track of everything. When I ask for a print out of the jumps for the weekend it shows the total amount of money I have spent at Skydive Dallas and that amount is past the $40,000 mark!! Of course that doesn't count the other dropzones I have jumped at and I didn't start jumping at Skydive Dallas till I had almost a 100 jumps. But I can't think of anything I would rather have spent the money on!!
Mar 20, 2009, 1:00 PM
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Including playing with flying Airplanes and Gliders....I gave up counting a long time ago. You pay whatever it takes to punch the fun ticket as long as its fun.
Mar 20, 2009, 1:19 PM
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Since becoming a tandem instructor the amount I fun jump has dramatically decreased so running the approx. numbers I have made $3 per jump so far. That is taking the amount I have spent and subtracting that from the total I have made then dividing that number by # total jumps
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Mar 21, 2009, 4:50 AM
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I use to keep better track for tax time, I almost always broke even...the last couple years i have been making a lot more fun jumps than work jumps, which means i really dont wanna know!
I gotta fork out close to $400 for mine
But I can't think of anything I would rather have spent the money on!!
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