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You said you new him personally right? You think he's the type that wouldn't mind us taking him out to dinner, see if he remembers her mom, talk old jump stories or not a great idea? Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

I would say poke around and see what ya find, but i think it's been harped on enough and need not be brought back up. Enough has been said in the past. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

No problem honey, our search for your mom's DZ turned into quite the little crazy story history lesson. I'll be interested to see what happens with it in the future on our little trip to Sheridan some day. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

Holy crap Jerry, I started poking around about Sheridan and Tedd....damn. I guess I finally understand the phrase "opening a can of worms..." PM me. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

I just spoke with the owner of one of the planes in the picture and the dropzone shown in in Sheridon Oregon. His plane wan't the jump ship but he did fly jumpers at one time. He atleast help me narrow down the location and i'm sending him the pics through email so he can have a look. The DZ is closed now and there isn't even an airport there now. Thanks a lot guys, I really appreciate all the help! Anyone ever jump Sheraton back in the day!? Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

Thanks for all the info guys, this is a great start, someone on BJ.com mentioned this may also be in oregon. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

and if this thread could be moved to the history forum it might be better served there. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

In the spring I will be traveling to Washington to hopefully track down the place where my fiancé's mother once jumped at to perform an ash dive in her memory. If you recognize this place or can help with any additional info please message or post. TY. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

Oh and another of my 2 cents, if you can't do the spotting thing I mentioned above, you instructors failed you terribly. No complicated pull of gravity with the moon, the amount of drag on you goggles, crap added in, but a simple way to calculate a functional spot, you instructors failed you. On the other hand, I think your program needs a little tweaking, and we have discussed it a load, and I have failed to assist the way I should have with it, but what you are doing is amazing and appreciated by many, keep up the good work buddy and i will see you soon! Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

So, my buddy has been sucked into the wonderful amazement of the waste of time on this sight. First, Digi, your doing a lot more for the sport than the people giving you a hard time on this sight so don't let it discourage you. Second, I would be more than happy to stop by and help with the program over some coffee. 3rd, Stick to your friends for help and assistance because forums are full of people like Mr. 99 years experience that have nothing better to do than screw with you. The few people that will give positive assistance will not out way the computer drama is my life crowd. 4th and most important, no offense to any, if you can't come up with a functional jump run and spot within 30 seconds of a weather report in your head that will put you in position to make it back to the airport easily without concern, go play golf and argue about the type of grass on the green. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

I see your point, but even during emergency exit practice, the majority of the emphasis by instructors is on who you take command from, which equipment to use at what altitude, poised/diving depending on the senario, arch one thousand two thousand pull, get off line of flight, ect. And this falls into the hop and pops in the coach program as well. Practice for aircraft emergecies is a big plus for those jumps which are skipped at a lot of DZ's (not Raeford, don't assume I meant that). We need to keep this in mind when breifing students and new jumpers and go into more detail about aircraft emergency and the skills it developes for ascending exits. I think a little muscle memory about being aware of the tail of the aircraft would be pretty easy to create if all of us paid a little closure attention to it. Then when we are doing an average hop and pop on an average day with average lack of communication, instead of handles in order used, spot, ready, set, tail strike, it might go handles in order used, spot, check the positioning of the aircraft and airspeed, ooh the tails low, sit down and roll out or exit low kneeling, or whatever, but hopefully not a tail strike. Myabe this would block out something more important, maybe to much info for one briefing, I know how we are taught to teach, but something may also be missing. What do yall feel about this as instructors? Maybe I'm off here. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

The first time I can remember someone really going into the position of the plane on exit was a solo fly away load out of a king air. The pilot was a jumper and new I was inexperienced (50ish jumps) and basically told me he wasn't going to slow down, but just whip a circle and out I go. So he told me, sit in the door and scoot out because the tail will be low and it just kinda never left my head after that. Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

Ok, bad assumption, I get it!, hey I did say most likely, not always Beware of Wandering Minions!!!

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