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    My instructors just sign and quote licence number.



    US is slightly different to ours. When you get onto fomation skydiving for instance the coaches will sign your logbook either with their licence number if they're also a CSI(or other instructor) or their formation skydiving coach number if they aren't.

  3. As a matter of interest whats involved in the grade system in the US?

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    Until you have your B (50 jumps + CH2 + JM1), you cannot jump a full face helmet or jump without an AAD.


    And to this its mainly due to the dangours of cold weather when they can easily frost over and your not able to see therefore only more experienced people should wear them (as well as B licence you need CCI discretion)

  9. With the biggest respect and very low experience i would listen to someone like billyvon who sounds like my (extremely experienced) CCI and other equally experienced intructors at my dropzone, with 42 jumps myself and on a fury and planning to be for a long time i think downsizing too soon is killing a lot of people who are far too young to die.

    Ally

  10. I've only been in the sport a very short time and only done a few jumps but from listening to instructors (opinions) the reason so many people are turning low and killing themselves is they are downsizing to fast. In the good old days (so im told) when people started to swoop it wasn't on small 0P canopies, these people had thousands of jumps on bigger ones before the 0P were even invented. Therefore their canopy control was far superior to people who are starting jumping small canopies with (relatively speaking) few jumps. Maybe people - in my opinion - who are just off student status that should be given more thorough training before they become 'experienced' (british B license parachutists). This although wont completely solve the problem will hopefully educate jumpers more.

  12. Recruiting is a dirty dangerous job. Everyone who skydives knows how enjoyable it is - putting that into words for non jumpers is difficult. I've just started recruiting for my University and its all a percentage game - at the freshers fayre got about 200 names interested - had an instrucotr come to talk to people the next week about 50 - if that turned up. Down to do jumps now <10.