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  1. Anyone know of any Heli action happening in the Florida area over the holidays??? I was sure I saw helicopter jumps on the Sebastian Invasion Ad but it isn't there now. cc
  2. I really appreciate you writing and offering to help out with this matter. My certificate is on the wall and I am excited to start having fun this season.
  3. She is getting her tandem rating too. And of course I am going to do lots of fun jumps now, just bought another wing suit, off to sunny florida for Iron Maiden and a week of jumping.
  4. Hello Everyone. First off, I am quite pleased to say I have received my Strong Tandem Rating in the mail!!!! I quite look forward to sharing a first jump experience with many new friends this season. I would also like to thank everyone who wrote on this post and expressed their opinions on the matter, as well as the people who pm'ed me and shared their Strong office horror stories as well. So, let me get one thing straight. I bought a house two and a half years ago, lived there ever since. I sent in my paperwork to Strong (which I still have a photocopy of) last October, when I was definately living where I do now. I definately put the correct address (my current address) on the paperwork I sent. I even got the Strong office (on a couple of occasions throughout this whole ordeal) to confirm that they had the correct address and they always have. If someone wants to use that as an excuse for F*$&%ng up I really don't care. Concerning there being a problem on the course administrators end, the first time I called (and was able to talk to someone) which was in November I believe, I asked if there were any issues with my application and was told there was none and all it required was a signature and it would be in the mail. I got that explanation for a couple of months I do believe. My course administrator was never contacted and there was never a problem with my application. Throughout this process I have been quite patient and certainly didn't want to seem pushy or annoy Strong with countless phonecalls and emails. I guess I just reached a "point" and had to vent somewhere. I am just a beginner in the tandem world and I wish my relationship with Strong didn't start like this. All I have to do now is look forward to having a great season doing tandems and learning lots from my students and the great tandem instructors I will be working with.
  5. Hello, I am a new Strong Tandem Instructor in Canada. Went throught the course last September / October and send in all my paperwork to Strong late October, 2010. To this date, after endless emails and phone calls and lies from the Strong office, I still have not received my rating. So many times I called or wrote emails (most never replied to) and asked where my rating was. I was always told, just one more week and we will get it out. Same thing a month later, same thing a month later. Told it was sent in Deceber, never came, told it was sent again this month with a tracker, nothing. All I get from the person running the ratings at Strong is basically the run around. I don't understand how an office could be so poorly run that a rating can't be sent out for 5 months. Have other people experienced the same thing??? This is a very poor start to a relationship with Strong that I already want over.
  6. cbcharlie

    Wings

    Bought my first new rig a couple of years ago. I went with Wings because of the instructor deal offered and there were quite a few of the rigs at my DZ and everyone had good things to say about the gear. When I received the gear in the mail, i tried it on and the MLW was too short. I couldn't stand up straight in the thing. I wrote Sunrise and explained the problem and they told me to send it back right away. I did, didn't cost me a thing. Got the new rig back, had a res installed and guess what,,, the mlw was too long. the rig sat really low on my back, huge gap between my shoulders and the rig under canopy. Anyway, i figured i screwed up by not having the res installed before i sent it back the first time. I didn't contact Sunrise again about it until about a year later when i was ready to get rid of the rig since the fit sucked so bad. So I wrote to Sunrise again and explained my situation to them. Reply,, send it back to us.. So i did, the new (third) rig sent to me fits perfectly. I didn't get charged for anything (shipping, new res repack, they thought the main risers were a little frayed so they gave me new ones, and a t-shirt!) Every email I received from the company was very courtious and professional. Same for every telephone conversation I had with them. They treated even a pain in the ass customer like me very well and I have nothing bad to say about this company. Five stars.
  7. Hello everyone. I don't know what to write on this forum but I feel I need to say something. I met Vicki at the dropzone a couple of months ago and since then I always smiled whenever she pulled in. She was always so generous and thoughtful. Myself and a couple of others went to dinner with her the night before the accident and spent the rest of the night laughing by the fire and playing her guitar. We were chatting about skydiving stuff right before she got on the plane. The first time I saw her that morning she was walking around passing out coffies to whoever wanted one. We had conversations when she told me how in love with skydiving she was and that her only regret was that she didn't find this place "the dropzone" earlier in life. She found what she truly loved in life and did it. Even if she only had a short time to do what her true passion was, well... she still lived it. That's still better than lots of people who live to be 100. I truly believe that life is infinitely precious and only lasts a moment. Blink and you'll miss it. Do whatever it is in this incredibly short time you have on this earth that makes you truly happy. There is way more to life than just being alive. I will always miss Vicki and think about her whenever I'm hopping out of the plane. She was always happy to be doing anything that had to do with skydiving. There was a great deal of saddness at the dropzone on Sunday and I learned that there are lots of very caring, loving, emotional, and truly good people there. Vicky was part of a great family and so am I. In my heart always Vicki.