jakebaustin

less testosterone and more dust. Two c182s tho he’s looking at a 206. One pilot-bill- stretch and john died Greg and bob metz aren’t interested in flying 182s. Rigger matt died this winter. 0-5 tandems on a given Saturday. Its not the Lodi it was 10 years ago. $10/3k & $25/10k unless theres tandem on the load then its 12k. $150/tandem and $30 of that for the TI. Bunk house is still there but no longer $10/night. Couple turtles in the pond now. swooping isnt back on but ya know bills in the plane if ur under canopy. I did a 4 way angle there in April or May. Word on the street is the DZ or whats left of it is for sale but don't quote me. Really its been like this for a couple of years, but perhaps no one told the legendary jaybyrd.

Someone once tried convincing me that SL BASE jumps werent BASE jumps and that SL skydives isn’t considered skydiving its Parachuting. So technically one could have heaps of SL skydives and SL BASE jumps but still not be a considered a skydiver or BASE jumper.

IANAL? what does that mean TAAGR(These acronyms are getting ridiculous)

Taft is closing as well

Was reading this- https://mcusercontent.com/e8fc934d6d96baf0579c77a10/files/1c1e851a-1df4-3cba-3cb5-1a3d66965c9c/wss_2022.pdf - the 2022 world skydiving statistics Australian Parachute Federation and got to thinking about the first tandem fatalities. was curious curious who knows the history, where the first incidents were, what happened etc. The earliest i could find was the Coors Demo double fatality in Perris 1988

Just heard that Colorado Mountain skydiving and out of the blue skydiving In Colorado have both closed down.

a great list by the sacramento bee. Would be interesting to see a simple list like this but for every DZ or at least for every tandem fatality. https://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/article282563978.html

Im all about them fm towers yo

Bay area skydiving has a bunkhouse bathroom and kitchen like area and will hire pretty much anyone at least once or twice. Same with Lodi. good luck!

I wonder how often this bridge gets jumped these days.

I couldnt find this white paper that you speak of but i read a lot of other interesting things. Do you have a link to the whitepaper?

whats the deal with these? Anyone know the history behind it? How well they work? Any experience with them? Is this a brand new concept? https://squirrel.ws/equipment/base-jumping/accessories/hayduke-6g-slider

“4. Remove the FAA flight physical requirement for TI’s. There is a national shortage of TI’s. The FAA flight physical system was never intended for skydivers. In addition to not serving the skydiving industry, this system chews up and spits out good people in a tremendously unjust manner. I would work to replace the FAA flight physical with something more reasonable.” What are some of the options for replacing the class 3 medical? Perhaps there’s just always been a shortage but if thats not the case, when did the national shortage of TIs start? Is there an international shortage?

Meh… so many other DZs with more tandem incidents than Lodi. Lodi had a single incident resulting in a doubly fatality and it took like 40 or 50 years of 7 day a week operating a good sized DZ for it to happen. sport jumpers however seem to be keen for the sacrifice! Tho its been a couple of years since there was a fatality- 2021- there seemed to be a trend for a while there(a 20 year trend) where Lodi was having a sport jumper fatality every year on average . Sans tandem passenger there are Still no student fatalities there. i believe that if the worlds dropzones got the media exposure that lodi gets when there is a fatality, people would have the same take on lodi with a lot of DZs. That is, with the exception of the legal drama regarding the tandem fatality. That kinda fucked everything up. if there was a legit skydiving fatalities list with locations posted then everyone could read about where tandems or students are actually dying or getting injured in Norcal and its not Lodi. These days The Parachute Center isnt just a 182 dz, its a DZ with three 182’s!

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