Jumptown or Skydive Pepperell?

[doorgirl 0]

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The only knock on SNE is there are remarkably few outs.

Very true! Work on your accuracy with a strong incentive, or join the SNE Arborist Society! In all honesty, people do a very good job of opening with enough altitude to make it home most of the time and there is a strong culture of preventing out landings through early decision making. At Jumptown you could land in a reservoir if you don't bother looking before you exit the plane, and there is a river next to Pepperell. No matter where you jump, it pays to learn about the outs and to stay smart. Some DZs just provide more incentive to make it home (in a safe manner.) On the plus side, there is usually already a car on its way to pick up jumpers at SNE once it is clear they will be landing out.

[ChrisD 0]

3331

Another DZ very close to Boston, my home town.

http://baystateskydiving.com/

I felt a little like this place was under - represented because of the intense competition that skyride falsley
portrays on the internet, so in an effort for skydivers to get a feel for what other skydivers are doing I have been trying to get some further informmation about the New England area and this is a very nice response about this place from Tom!! :


"Hi Chris. Thank you for the endorsement, very much appreciated.

The short version DZ status report is: I opened Bay State Skydiving Center last year in Boston while working full time in Deland, so it was a "fly home every weekend" between April and October, kind of thing to set up, get approved and open. It took a few months with getting FAA and MassDOT permissions, all sorted, and we opened some time in June. Then there were aircraft lease issues and bad weather, so I ended up buying a 182 with a friend in late July which I am keeping in Jumptown so they can use it while I'm in Deland.

The DZ has been more of a bucket list project thus far, so this year (2013) I'm flying when I can, by appointment. It's an amazing facility, gorgeous views and the town loves us, but it's not (this year) a full time, open every weekend, facility.

I travel a lot for my day job, so I am only planning to fly one weekend a month this summer till Labor Day. I am happy to email you ahead of time each month to let you know when I'm flying if you want to come out. We can make some jumps together, I don't get to fun jump enough any more, so it will be a good excuse to jump my sport rig.

For what it's worth about skyride, living social, groupon, etc, I am not involved in any of that. I will not work with Skyride or whatever it's new name is? Just on principal. As for Groupon or Living Social, I dont use them, but don't have an opinion either way on them. Nationally, I have seen it work well at some DZs and not so well at others. It's not my thing either way though, so I don't really have too much to offer either way, good or bad about it.

So, that's the scoop.

Oh..... And I'm trying to think of the "help" on here........ I'm thinking its D3331, my Virginia based skydive relative , "Cousin Steve". He's family, so he's always gonna route for Bay State Skydiving.



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Namaste,
Tom Noonan

http://www.everest-skydive.com "


No it's not a plug to go jumping in Everest by me, but if I had the cash ????
THANKS FOR THE GREAT REPLY TOM!!!! I hope New England skydivers will support one of their own whenever they get the chance. C

But what do I know, "I only have one tandem jump."