IBflying

I have to say that I also had a very disappointing experience at SVNH. Yes, location means a lot, I'd like to not have to travel to the middle of nowhere with little else to do but the tunnel; however, if the customer service is above average and I feel as though my business is important, then I'll still make the effort. Unfortunately SkyVenture New Hampshire didn't meet my expectations...and by expectations I mean that I'd like the owner to look me in the eye at the very least, and not appear to have had the WORST day in her LIFE to this point. People get cocky, they get arrogant, and they get lazy. You want repeat business? Then I suggest finding a way to hide the beast.

And where, pray tell, did you get sand in your face?

Yeah, it's definitely more like flying in a box than a tube.

Are there plans in the works for a SVNH webcam on your website any time soon?

BTW, I hear your tunnel is sick. Lotsa ex-Perrisites there. Perrisites you mean. Once from Perris, always from Perris.

Thank you...I figured it was as much, just was curious to know for sure, we're all anxious to get in and try 'er out. I very much appreciate a REAL answer.

Listen, buddy, my point was not to seem argumentative...I was just curious as to what anyone had heard about why there were delays. As I said before, we've heard about all the good stuff, and having been a part of a tunnel before, I know that there are unseen obstacles, and I understand this...which I also said, if you had taken the good as WELL AS the bad from my post...and having been a part of a tunnel, I know that there are also not so good moments during the opening, and thought maybe we'd hear about those as well...just because everything doesn't go as planned doesn't make you weak, it makes you human, and it's okay to share that too. From my experience on this website, people ask questions, and whatever other people know, they usually share that knowledge with the rest, this isn't criminal, it's curiosity...am I to assume that this is not the case? You're getting way bent out of shape and a little stressed out it seems--relax, take it easy, don't get so tense...it's only a post afterall...talk about "looking bad..."

No sarcasm huh? Interesting. As a matter of fact, I have been around for tunnel openings, and I have been in the tunnel business...have you? Which tunnels have you worked for? Just trying to make conversation...less hostile conversation. As a consumer, and a future customer of SVNH, it IS my business to know why there have been delays. If we have been privy to all the information up to this point (aka, when each fan had been placed, and what color they were planning on painting the walls) then why not indulge us with this too? I'm not being accusatory, meerly curious. Some of us have to work, and can't just flit around the US and farther to fly.

Right.... and today is August 1st...

If your staff is almost done training, why are you planning on opening at the end of August, when your website says you'll be opening at the beginning of August?

As I've said before, I'm not a skydiver, but the reason I hang around these forums is because I'm a huge tunnel junkie (not a rat, there's a difference). Have you tried wind tunnels yet? Your wife would enjoy it more, I guarantee, which might in turn have you enjoying it more.

Ooooooooooo, it's possible! It's all about the love baby!

I'm going to go the other way with this. I'm a non-skydiver, but am familiar with the sport because my boyfriend, then fiance, then husband (all the same guy by the way) was a skydiver at one point. I have hung around more dropzones, for more hours than I care to count, or remember for that matter. Initially, I was very anti-skydiving. I was negative toward the sport, and my husband I had more arguments over it than anything else. He and I led a long-distance relationship for a while, and I became incredibly bitter that we'd spend our time together with me on the ground and him in the air. I had no desire to do it, because I felt that I was capable of living my life and feeling content, without having to add that extra danger to it. Other things were more important to me, like family, like health. Plus, I didn't trust myself enough in that type of situation, and the short thrill was never worth the huge risk. Eventually though I came to accept it because I loved him (and still do, more than anything, that's why I married him). But just because I accepted it, didn't mean that I liked it any more than I had previously. We got through our differences, although still argued about it frequently...I ended up doing a tandem, which is how he proposed to me, but I will never do it again...some people just aren't meant to fly I suppose. I fly enough with both feet firmly planted on the ground... So she may come to accept it, or she may not. But I'll tell you this: the reason I became upset and it was worth all the arguments to me, was because I cared about my husband's safety, more than I cared about some sport. And I don't regret making it harder, because maybe that's what kept him alive.