steve1 5 #1 March 2, 2011 Back in the day (72-75), I remember packing reserves for five bucks each. (That was when the reserve repack cycle was every 60 days).....With my new rigger seal in hand, I remember thinking, this is way too much responsibility for too little pay. In other words I didn't know much about rigging, but I was still packing reserves. Jumps were $3.50 then, but five bucks still wasn't much cash.... Anyone else pack reserves back then? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airdvr 200 #2 March 2, 2011 SST $15Please don't dent the planet. Destinations by Roxanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wmw999 2,146 #3 March 2, 2011 I started rigging in 1978; repacks were $5 in Texas and $8 in New England at the time. Wendy P.There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lodestar 0 #4 March 2, 2011 It was $6 at Zhills as I recall, unless, of course, you requested one of my "survival kits" installed, then it was $10. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rapter 0 #5 March 2, 2011 I got my repacks in 85 for $25.00 bucks, it was a SAC 22. and I could sign my rigger's name better then he could,.......... Only the good die young, so I have found immortality, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,063 #6 March 2, 2011 Hi steve, I got my Senior Rigger ticket in early '65 & repacks were $2.50 each. And a lift to 3,500 was also $2.50. JerryBaumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
councilman24 36 #7 March 2, 2011 In 1980 in Michigan they were $15. I got my riggers ticket because I had 3 rigs to keep in date.Sounds like we might have been high.But now we're probably low at $60. I'm old for my age. Terry Urban D-8631 FAA DPRE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 21 #8 March 2, 2011 Piad $5 and $10 in the 60s and early 70s, then $20. Lately I've been paying $40-$60. I tip the $40 guy generously. What astounds me is how cheap jumps are today. Lodi still has $15 jumps and the highest around my area is $22. Man do we squeeze the DZOs hard. I sometimes feel guilty riding in their million dollar turbine jumpships that drink $5 a gallon fuel and have huge insurance premiums and maintenance costs. In a just world we'd pay a lot more. Thank God for tandems. 3772018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gene03 0 #9 March 3, 2011 Yes. Back in the day it was usually 5 bucks and a 6 pack. The 6 pack was to prime the pump and get the rigger in the mood to pack it.“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 135 #10 March 3, 2011 Quote but five bucks still wasn't much cash.... Anyone else pack reserves back then? my glider club pays me good money... at today's exchange rate I repack PEP's at 129$ scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Niki1 1 #11 March 3, 2011 Quote Yes. Back in the day it was usually 5 bucks and a 6 pack. The 6 pack was to prime the pump and get the rigger in the mood to pack it. Through the 70s and into the 80s, I charged the price of a hight jump for a repack. At Palatka with 182s, it was the same as a 7,500' jump. Later at DeLand, it was the same as a 13,500 jump. Easy money. With rounds. Ram airs, a bit more involved. In the mid 80s, I was the R&D shop for the Relative Workshop. Bill had set me up in the little block building beside the Airport Bar. On one particular day, I saw a rigger from another shop peddle up on his bicycle and walk past my window to the bar. A few minutes later he walked back with a six pack, put it in the basket on the bike and rode off. This happined 4 times over the next severel hours. Later that day I was talking to the guy who ran the shop that rigger worked for and mentioned it. He said, "Well, he only had 4 reserves to pack that day," No names in order to obfuscate the guilty.Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gene03 0 #12 March 3, 2011 Thank God that practice has changed. Bob, what are you up to these days?“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mbranch202 1 #13 March 3, 2011 QuoteIt was $6 at Zhills as I recall, unless, of course, you requested one of my "survival kits" installed, then it was $10. I would always opt for the "survival kit" myself.. I think Weird Max had his own version of said kit also... Max's cost was around 10 bucks as well..Mike Branch NSCSA #7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Niki1 1 #14 March 3, 2011 Quote Thank God that practice has changed. Bob, what are you up to these days? About 5' 10" if I stand up straight. Otherwise semi retired sounds better than unemployed. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done. Louis D Brandeis Where are we going and why are we in this basket? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lucky508 0 #15 March 4, 2011 QuoteQuoteIt was $6 at Zhills as I recall, unless, of course, you requested one of my "survival kits" installed, then it was $10. I would always opt for the "survival kit" myself.. I think Weird Max had his own version of said kit also... Max's cost was around 10 bucks as well.. What was the "survival kit"? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WGore 0 #16 March 7, 2011 Use to pay $2 in late 64' early 65'. 7500' jump was $3 then. I think I was clearing $65 a week at the time.GUNFIRE, The sound of Freedom! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mbranch202 1 #17 March 7, 2011 QuoteQuoteQuoteIt was $6 at Zhills as I recall, unless, of course, you requested one of my "survival kits" installed, then it was $10. I would always opt for the "survival kit" myself.. I think Weird Max had his own version of said kit also... Max's cost was around 10 bucks as well.. What was the "survival kit"? South American agriculture products, matches, and a quarter for the pay phone when you found one..Mike Branch NSCSA #7 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blongb 0 #18 March 8, 2011 $5 in the late 60's in Ohio........moved to Calif in1973 and it was $10...found it was much cheaper to pencil pack it...60 repack cycle was ridiculous........... BL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WGore 0 #19 March 10, 2011 Quote$5 in the late 60's in Ohio........moved to Calif in1973 and it was $10...found it was much cheaper to pencil pack it...60 repack cycle was ridiculous........... BL Bill, you have to remember that back then the rules were based on the old silk parachutes. BTW when I catch someone forging my signature on a packing card there next repack is double.GUNFIRE, The sound of Freedom! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lodestar 0 #20 March 11, 2011 Correct me if I'm wrong on this but, there is no way you can pencil pack a reserve and still have a seal on it. The packing card is ALWAYS inside and a seal with the riggers symbol is on the pins in such a manner so as to be impossible to pull without breaking the red sealing thread. There should also be an additional card outside with nothing else but the repack date on it, vis a vis the date of the repack. At least that's how I did/do it.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,063 #21 March 11, 2011 Hi lodestar, QuoteThe packing card is ALWAYS inside . . . At least that's how I did/do it.... That would make you the one & only one that I have EVER heard of doing it. JerryBaumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blongb 0 #22 March 11, 2011 Boz, I was always on the up and up when I was back in Ky, plus I packed a lot of reserves under Kenn's license while trying to get my rigger's ticket, including my own (I have 5 or 6 pack jobs that were actually used; mine once, very cool) When I got to Calif., my attitude changed. I never forged your sig..............honest............ Yes, that's why I wasn't too concerned since my reserve was not silk. I began to think the worst thing to do was to mess with a perfectly good pack job. Bill Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vanair 0 #23 March 11, 2011 Some guys did put another card inside to see if it was honest, but not THE card. Like PDs marking the tail. About 12 yrs ago I got a rig for repack at the Ranch NY. Guy getting back in the sport, it had been packed for 11+1/2 YRs. Pulled the handle POOF, looked like it would have worked as advertised. Forget what it was other than at the time it was a 15 or so YR old sport rig. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WGore 0 #24 March 16, 2011 QuoteCorrect me if I'm wrong on this but, there is no way you can pencil pack a reserve and still have a seal on it. The packing card is ALWAYS inside and a seal with the riggers symbol is on the pins in such a manner so as to be impossible to pull without breaking the red sealing thread. There should also be an additional card outside with nothing else but the repack date on it, vis a vis the date of the repack. At least that's how I did/do it.... Most of the new stuff doesn't have the internal pocket anymore. Even the ones that did, the outside card had to have all of the information in case of a ramp check. Bill, I wasn't accusing of doing it, just that it has happened and that is my response to it if it is one of my repacks initially. I don't even remember having packed yours but that was a long time ago. A lot of brain cells gone south in those intervening years. One guy even brought one back (a pilot rig) with my seal on it and some fictitious name and license number.GUNFIRE, The sound of Freedom! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 3 #25 March 16, 2011 QuoteCorrect me if I'm wrong on this but, there is no way you can pencil pack a reserve and still have a seal on it. The packing card is ALWAYS inside and a seal with the riggers symbol is on the pins in such a manner so as to be impossible to pull without breaking the red sealing thread. There should also be an additional card outside with nothing else but the repack date on it, vis a vis the date of the repack. At least that's how I did/do it.... At one time it was required to have a data pocket on the inside of the container. SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
