I think they have accommodations, but I'm not sure.
Just a forewarning, the Qatari military is here and they dominate many of the loads. I think there will be more planes running on the weekends but it has been slow due to high winds. The weather here will be pretty consistent like that for the next few months. Ever since the cold front came through it's been gusts of greater than 20 kts.
Don't forget about the wind tunnel in Orlando. It'll serve you well if the weather is crappy.
From Orlando, you're pretty centrally located to hit DeLand, Z-hills and Sebastian. If you don't mind about an hour drive to each place, you can just stay at your hotel and you won't have to move around. If you want to stay late into the night, there are hotels near each dz and I know Deland has skydiver owned bunkhouses around town and Z-hills has some trailers that get rented out that are on the dz.
November is usually a pretty nice month to jump in FL, you should have fun! Let me know when you might be in Deland and I'll see if I'm jumping that weekend.
If you are coming toward the end of hte month you might want to check out Z-Hills
21-29 - Thanksgiving Boogie and Turkey Meet. Our Annual season kickoff. Lots of events during the week, seminars, coaching, big-ways, RW/FS, freeflying, wingsuits.
21 - Night jumps Saturday Night - B license required. 22 - High Altitude loads, 22000' for 90-110 seconds of freefall. B license required. 26 - 10 Way Speed competition 27 - 8 Way FS 28 - 16 Way FS, & Night Jumps 28 - Bloodnet USA here for blood donations. Save a life 29 - High Altitude Load first thing in the a.m. & Rain Day for any of the competitions
From Orlando, you're pretty centrally located to hit DeLand, Z-hills and Sebastian. If you don't mind about an hour drive to each place, you can just stay at your hotel and you won't have to move around. If you want to stay late into the night, there are hotels near each dz and I know Deland has skydiver owned bunkhouses around town and Z-hills has some trailers that get rented out that are on the dz.
November is usually a pretty nice month to jump in FL, you should have fun! Let me know when you might be in Deland and I'll see if I'm jumping that weekend.
Cool - i didn't remember that Z-Hills was that close to Orlando
I've visited the Hills and Sebastian before - so i guess i'll definately give Deland a visit this time - especially if Skymama's jumping
Thanks for all the suggestions so far and if anyone's got any more or knows of a good party or two then let me know.
From Orlando, you're pretty centrally located to hit DeLand, Z-hills and Sebastian. If you don't mind about an hour drive to each place, you can just stay at your hotel and you won't have to move around. If you want to stay late into the night, there are hotels near each dz and I know Deland has skydiver owned bunkhouses around town and Z-hills has some trailers that get rented out that are on the dz.
November is usually a pretty nice month to jump in FL, you should have fun! Let me know when you might be in Deland and I'll see if I'm jumping that weekend.
If only you could jump there....they don't care for fun jumpers, only tandems. They like to move their aircraft to Titusville as well. Z-hills gets all their pissed of fun jumpers and tandems, so thanks!
Not trying to debate which DZ is better, I jumped Z-hills for a few months and had a blast there, went to LW to try it out and found it a very friendly place with some good people. I keep going back. The complaints surrounding LW are, I believe, due to the DZO not putting the plane in the air unless there are a minimum number on board. Isn't this just a good business decision? Doesn't every other DZO do the same thing? It's not cost effective to put a 6 way up, I don't blame them. If fun jumpers bail on a DZ because there aren't enough of them there to put a load up, it's ony a matter of time (and opinion) that the DZ will be labled a "tandem factory" because those 6 people get turned away when the tandems are done for the day.
It's a shame if some fun jumpers bailed on this DZ because of their misconceptions. If they had stayed, there would be enough folks there regulary to keep flying all day. I guess it's all good for the other DZ's though. I too may eventually have to give up on this DZ due to lack of fun-jump loads and head back to Z-Hills or maybe Deland, but until then, I invite you to join me for some good old-fashioned fun jumps at Lake Wales.
Go to Deland for thanksgiving day's dinner at the DZ. . you will meet Bob Hallet,,the owner, and other great people. Good food, good wine, good beer, good deserts,..... good spirit[
(This post was edited by Glandu on Oct 24, 2009, 9:26 AM)
It's high 70's and low 80's right now for the high. Saturday was terribly hot. When are you coming?
There's plenty of beer in Deland, there's a full bar at the restaurant. As for the accent, it should work for you. I don't know about the English sense of humor though.
