JoeyRamone 0 #26 April 3, 2004 SkydiveChicago is my home and always will be. I like the place because my wife and kids can go for a swim, fish, camp, walk to the river or just hang around the Hanger. They have a lot of other kids to hang with too. A real family oriented DZ. No need to go anywhere else. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nbblood 0 #27 April 3, 2004 The place I learned, The Ranch in New York, was merely where I was located at the time. It was great and I'd love to visit from time to time, but it was never really "home". Being in the military keeps me away from "home" most of the time, but before being sent to Korea I was jumping where "home" really is. I actually have two homes, Skydive Ogden in Utah and Skydive Mesquite in Nevada. They are both "home" to me and always will be. However, I've had the fortune to visit many DZs and every one has made me feel like another home away from home. Now that I think of it, can I pick the USA as my "home DZ"? and all others as my home away from home? Blues, NathanBlues, Nathan If you wait 'til the last minute, it'll only take a minute. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AudreyRowe 0 #28 April 3, 2004 The DZ I learned at is closed now - but had really stopped going there much anyway in favour of a bigger DZ. It still holds fantastic memories though! Aahh - those early Brunton days ....... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites slotperfect 7 #29 April 3, 2004 I was trained initially as a Military Free Fall jumper, so the poll doesn't really work for me. But, regarding my "civilian" skydiving career: -It is the closes one to where I live. (35 minutes) -I have jumped at the neighbors, and I have friends at both places -I have been homesteading at Ft. Bragg for almost 20 years - no moves for me! -I have reinvented my "groove" at Raeford a couple of times. -I have jumped at the neighbors, and they're not pricks. I was treated to great hospitality. -My home DZ has never closed, but the neighbors did after losing an aircraft under the original owners. It reopened under new management.Arrive Safely John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ladyskydiver 0 #30 April 3, 2004 I'm one of the lucky ones...as far as I'm concerned I have 2 home DZ's - the one that I started skydiving at (SkyKnights) and the one I'm jumping at now (ZHills). Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites tbrown 26 #31 April 3, 2004 I started at the Seneca Sport Parachute Club in Seneca Falls, NY back in '74. Between Seneca and the Ripcord Skydiving Club in W. Bloomfield, NY, I worked my way throough the old student progression and learned RW the hard way - 30 seconds at a time, mostly out of Cessnas. Though Seneca did get a DHC-1 Beaver in '76. I moved to the west coast in '78. Ripcord Club went under and Seneca lost their lease at the airport, though the remnants of the old Seneca group have been holding forth as the Finger Lakes Skydivers in Ovid. The Finger Lakes DZO John King was jumping at Seneca when I took my FJC, he was one of the few brave souls to be jumping one of the newfangled squares, a ParaPlane Cloud. There's still a spark of a link in my heart, but I'm really completely transplanted to So. Cal, mostly Perris (1978-80 and 2003 - present) these days. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BethUK 0 #32 April 3, 2004 No, cos I learned in France and I live in England!! Great dz tho, where the world meet was held last august! Going back 14th June Bx------------------------------------------------------------ "This isn't flying...it's falling with style!" Buzz Lightyear - Toystory 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Andrewwhyte 1 #33 April 3, 2004 QuoteWhat's 'home'? Where I started? Where I train? Where most of my jumping friends are? My favorite DZ? My favorite DZ within a certain radius? Where I voluntarily go when I have an idle weekend? Where I have the most jumps? Yah, I was surprised by the interpretations. I was originally thinking 'home is where your hat is,' but clearly most people are thinking 'home is where your heart is.' QuotePerhaps I don't really have a home DZ. I should have included that option. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites JamesNahikian 0 #34 April 3, 2004 Sort of. In the early 90's I received my initial sport training and then jumped a few times at a small Cessna dz in another state, good folks. The training at this place was run by a colorful gentleman who explicated on AAD functionality, stating simply "if you're havin' a bad day, the device will blow'd the reserve off your back and if that fails, why then I guess you really _are_ havin' a bad day, ha, ha ...." Suffice it to say I am a person who requires a bit more technical depth of understanding in regards to survival equipment I am carrying. A couple of years later I started fresh with the rigorous AFP program at the old Skydive Chicago facility. While I am fortunate to occasionally jump at various other dz's around the world, I consider Skydive Chicago my home dz even though it wasn't my first one. And FWIW, the Cessna dz I refer to is still going strong apparently, incident-free more than ten years after I made my first jumps there. I'm not knocking it. D. James Nahikian CHICAGO Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites gremlin 0 #35 April 3, 2004 Home is where you feel comfortable. I learnt at Topcliffe in England and spent many a happy weekend there watching the rain. I moved down South and was told it later closed. Shame it was a good place with fun people.I'm drunk, you're drunk, lets go back to mine.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mikeat10500 10 #36 April 4, 2004 I still jump at the same DZ I started at. We try to make it a very fun place. Some video shot on our small 1 cessna DZ can be found at skydiving movies dot com. "the_kids_arent_alright.wmv" I think a log in is required to view movies now. Look under Miscellaneous, Author Trevor Bagnell http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1425 mike----------------------------------- Mike Wheadon B-3715,HEMP#1 Higher Expectations for Modern Parachutists. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites flynhigh 0 #37 April 4, 2004 Absolutely!! No matter where my path will lead me - I will always consider the DZ where I learned how to jump - home. The instructors there helped 'mold me' - introduced me to all disciplines of skydiving. They're awesome! Dare to dream and then make it happen! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Vertifly 0 #38 April 4, 2004 'No. They're OK but I found my groove at the new place.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites piisfish 135 #39 April 4, 2004 voted NO... but still call it my 1st... where I got the virus... started in Homestead, FL, Skydive Miami... Live in Switzerland my Home DZ is EPCO (Ecole de Parachuisme de chateau d'oex) www.epco.aero my second home DZ is EmpuriaBrava (Spain) where I did approx 100 jumps out of 400scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites mrhoop 0 #40 April 5, 2004 The DZ I learned at, is further away now. It also only flies C-182's, except for special occasions. I still jump in a cessna, but like the otter better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites efs4ever 3 #41 April 5, 2004 No, I call it a subdivision. Aero Country, Dallas. Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Fireflyer 0 #42 April 5, 2004 i just started, but i can't imagine leaving my DZ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites smiles 0 #43 April 5, 2004 ...after 15 years of skydiving I still call the DZ where I learned to fly "home"---because I learned how to "fly" there it will always be my home. SMiles Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Designer 0 #44 April 5, 2004 STP will always hold a special place in my heart!40+ yrs of being/holding a skydiving club together in the good,bad or whatever says alot about our past,present and hopefully future members. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites panzwami 0 #45 April 5, 2004 QuoteYou missed the option for "Yes, I've moved far away and jump at a new home. but my original DZ is still and always home". yeah, second that. I learned to jump and jumped for over two years at Skydive Atlanta, but then I moved back up to the DC area. I jump around here a lot, but I still consider good ol' OPN to be my home. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 2 of 2 Join the conversation You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account. Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible. Reply to this topic... × Pasted as rich text. Paste as plain text instead Only 75 emoji are allowed. × Your link has been automatically embedded. Display as a link instead × Your previous content has been restored. Clear editor × You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL. Insert image from URL × Desktop Tablet Phone Submit Reply 0
slotperfect 7 #29 April 3, 2004 I was trained initially as a Military Free Fall jumper, so the poll doesn't really work for me. But, regarding my "civilian" skydiving career: -It is the closes one to where I live. (35 minutes) -I have jumped at the neighbors, and I have friends at both places -I have been homesteading at Ft. Bragg for almost 20 years - no moves for me! -I have reinvented my "groove" at Raeford a couple of times. -I have jumped at the neighbors, and they're not pricks. I was treated to great hospitality. -My home DZ has never closed, but the neighbors did after losing an aircraft under the original owners. It reopened under new management.Arrive Safely John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyskydiver 0 #30 April 3, 2004 I'm one of the lucky ones...as far as I'm concerned I have 2 home DZ's - the one that I started skydiving at (SkyKnights) and the one I'm jumping at now (ZHills). Life is short! Break the rules! Forgive quickly! Kiss slowly! Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably. And never regret anything that made you smile. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tbrown 26 #31 April 3, 2004 I started at the Seneca Sport Parachute Club in Seneca Falls, NY back in '74. Between Seneca and the Ripcord Skydiving Club in W. Bloomfield, NY, I worked my way throough the old student progression and learned RW the hard way - 30 seconds at a time, mostly out of Cessnas. Though Seneca did get a DHC-1 Beaver in '76. I moved to the west coast in '78. Ripcord Club went under and Seneca lost their lease at the airport, though the remnants of the old Seneca group have been holding forth as the Finger Lakes Skydivers in Ovid. The Finger Lakes DZO John King was jumping at Seneca when I took my FJC, he was one of the few brave souls to be jumping one of the newfangled squares, a ParaPlane Cloud. There's still a spark of a link in my heart, but I'm really completely transplanted to So. Cal, mostly Perris (1978-80 and 2003 - present) these days. Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BethUK 0 #32 April 3, 2004 No, cos I learned in France and I live in England!! Great dz tho, where the world meet was held last august! Going back 14th June Bx------------------------------------------------------------ "This isn't flying...it's falling with style!" Buzz Lightyear - Toystory 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #33 April 3, 2004 QuoteWhat's 'home'? Where I started? Where I train? Where most of my jumping friends are? My favorite DZ? My favorite DZ within a certain radius? Where I voluntarily go when I have an idle weekend? Where I have the most jumps? Yah, I was surprised by the interpretations. I was originally thinking 'home is where your hat is,' but clearly most people are thinking 'home is where your heart is.' QuotePerhaps I don't really have a home DZ. I should have included that option. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JamesNahikian 0 #34 April 3, 2004 Sort of. In the early 90's I received my initial sport training and then jumped a few times at a small Cessna dz in another state, good folks. The training at this place was run by a colorful gentleman who explicated on AAD functionality, stating simply "if you're havin' a bad day, the device will blow'd the reserve off your back and if that fails, why then I guess you really _are_ havin' a bad day, ha, ha ...." Suffice it to say I am a person who requires a bit more technical depth of understanding in regards to survival equipment I am carrying. A couple of years later I started fresh with the rigorous AFP program at the old Skydive Chicago facility. While I am fortunate to occasionally jump at various other dz's around the world, I consider Skydive Chicago my home dz even though it wasn't my first one. And FWIW, the Cessna dz I refer to is still going strong apparently, incident-free more than ten years after I made my first jumps there. I'm not knocking it. D. James Nahikian CHICAGO Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gremlin 0 #35 April 3, 2004 Home is where you feel comfortable. I learnt at Topcliffe in England and spent many a happy weekend there watching the rain. I moved down South and was told it later closed. Shame it was a good place with fun people.I'm drunk, you're drunk, lets go back to mine.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikeat10500 10 #36 April 4, 2004 I still jump at the same DZ I started at. We try to make it a very fun place. Some video shot on our small 1 cessna DZ can be found at skydiving movies dot com. "the_kids_arent_alright.wmv" I think a log in is required to view movies now. Look under Miscellaneous, Author Trevor Bagnell http://www.skydivingmovies.com/ver2/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=1425 mike----------------------------------- Mike Wheadon B-3715,HEMP#1 Higher Expectations for Modern Parachutists. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flynhigh 0 #37 April 4, 2004 Absolutely!! No matter where my path will lead me - I will always consider the DZ where I learned how to jump - home. The instructors there helped 'mold me' - introduced me to all disciplines of skydiving. They're awesome! Dare to dream and then make it happen! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vertifly 0 #38 April 4, 2004 'No. They're OK but I found my groove at the new place.' Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 135 #39 April 4, 2004 voted NO... but still call it my 1st... where I got the virus... started in Homestead, FL, Skydive Miami... Live in Switzerland my Home DZ is EPCO (Ecole de Parachuisme de chateau d'oex) www.epco.aero my second home DZ is EmpuriaBrava (Spain) where I did approx 100 jumps out of 400scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrhoop 0 #40 April 5, 2004 The DZ I learned at, is further away now. It also only flies C-182's, except for special occasions. I still jump in a cessna, but like the otter better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
efs4ever 3 #41 April 5, 2004 No, I call it a subdivision. Aero Country, Dallas. Russell M. Webb D 7014 Attorney at Law 713 385 5676 https://www.tdcparole.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fireflyer 0 #42 April 5, 2004 i just started, but i can't imagine leaving my DZ! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
smiles 0 #43 April 5, 2004 ...after 15 years of skydiving I still call the DZ where I learned to fly "home"---because I learned how to "fly" there it will always be my home. SMiles Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Designer 0 #44 April 5, 2004 STP will always hold a special place in my heart!40+ yrs of being/holding a skydiving club together in the good,bad or whatever says alot about our past,present and hopefully future members. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
panzwami 0 #45 April 5, 2004 QuoteYou missed the option for "Yes, I've moved far away and jump at a new home. but my original DZ is still and always home". yeah, second that. I learned to jump and jumped for over two years at Skydive Atlanta, but then I moved back up to the DC area. I jump around here a lot, but I still consider good ol' OPN to be my home. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
