jim2752

Skydive Suffolk Suffolk, Virginia PAC 750XL 13,500 ft $20 jump ticket regardless of altitude, whether it be 4,000 ft or 13,500 ft.

I'm just curious how many "tandem only" USPA dropzones there are. Anybody know??

The instructors and videographers can still maintain their individual USPA membership even if their tandem factory DZ were not allowed to have group membership. If a licensed skydiver can't jump there, then it shouldn't be a USPA group member DZ.

What helped me out tremendously was conducting several practice jumps a couple of weekends before the course started. I made these jumps with an evaluator that I knew was going to be evaluating during the course. I also got intimately familiar with the air evaluation checklist in the IRM. It lists the areas in which you will be avaluated in the air. You need to score 75% or better in order to pass the air eval. Also, get the bottom end sequence down cold(altitude signal, pull signal, dock, assist, deploy student). Good luck!!

Exit separation should be based on the aircrafts ground speed on jump run. Ground speed is based on two factors: strength of the winds at altitude and how much the pilot slows the aircraft. The higher the ground speed, the less exit separation that is needed between groups. And vice versa. The aircraft (PAC 750) at my home DZ has relatively slow ground speeds on jump run. I've seen it as slow as 19 knots!! On that particular jump run, we were leaving well over 20 seconds of separation between groups. Have fun and be safe.

Thats right. Packers are not perfect. Thats why we are trained in emergency procedures and that is also why a reserve is required to be packed by an FAA certified rigger every 120 days. Please don't take up skydiving. We don't need your type. I think chess would be much more suitable for you.

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I'm looking to get into camera flying. Does anyone have any suggestions for a setup?