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good times! Here's some of my gopro video of the heli exits and a swoop... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0m68gKBYrk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHhCs-2zigA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viADQu6rwj4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gZT7hSLl-k Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

The view at Norcal Skydiving is pretty marvelous... No matter what, you will have the Anderson & Dry Creek valley wine areas, as well as Lake Sonoma and the Mayacamas mountains on a jumpable day. On a clearer day, you can see the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco. On the clearest of winter days, you can see the snow capped peaks of the Sierras as well as Mt Lassen and Mt Shasta. The bomb view, but out of a 182 or 206 so be ready for the laid-back pace a family DZ provides. On the other hand, if you want to make 10+ jumps in a day, you can still see some mountains and a hint of the ocean in the valley DZ's, but the views in Cloverdale are particularly spectacular and worth the time in my opinion... Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

I've been to 10 DZ's, granted I'm biased because tecumseh is my home, but I agree.. Pretty much whatever discipline you are into, there is someone there that will be able to teach you something about iit. They're a lot of fun around the bonfire too. Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

anybody get it yet? If it's not gone yet, it has to be close... Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

I sort-of do. I use a Neptune/Paralog to record data about the jumps, I try to input things when I dump my neptune data as far as size/type of jump etc. I have a paper logbook that I quit logging jumps in around 220 but I continue to keep things like night-jump safety briefings, license exam test scores, and most recently my coach rating endorsements in. If my neptune were to fail I'd pick up the paper again, but only until I could replace the Neptune... So yes I keep an accurate record, and I enjoy the number crunching and graphing that I can do in Paralog, but it's not really the traditional way that folks have done it. Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

I just got D-29924 about a week & a half ago, you should be pretty close... Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

Didnt something similar happen in Perris recently too? I seem to remember something about a jumper loosening his chest strap, then going to release toggles and having one side knot up. IIRC it was speculated that the harness was distorted after the cutaway due to the loose chest strap. Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

awesome :-) See you this weekend Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

Hello, I just moved to California and while I love the area I live in, the nearest DZ is like an hour & a half away. This kinda kills any weekday jumping for me unless it's near summer solstice or something. Anyways, I guess there used to be a DZ in Santa Rosa, and after that a DZ in Healdsburg, but both have since shut. So I had this wacky idea that if I could find a pilot/aircraft owner who would be interested in getting his 182 or something similar certified to fly without the door... Well we could start having some fun on the weekends or Wednesday nights, and someone could get a lot of flying hours subsidized out of the deal. Anybody have any experience starting a small, informal club like this? I don't really know any pilots but my girlfriend and I would be interested in making many hop & pops from an airplane thats closer to here than Davis or Byron. I was thinking maybe trying to find an interested party thru a local airport or something but really, I don't have much experience besides being on the jumping-out side of the whole operation. I know there are other jumpers up this way and it would be great to have a small club or something to call home for a few weeknights/weekends per month... Hell even a one-time or monthly event would be pretty cool and, dammit, I really enjoy 182 jumps. Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

I hope they re-open. I moved to Santa Rosa in November and Davis is a long drive... It would be nice to have a 182 option in Sonoma county Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

Hi, I just moved to Santa Rosa. I know about the above DZ's but I have heard there is/was one in Cloverdale as well. Is there anywhere to jump currently in the North Bay area? All the other DZ's are over an hour from home and not feasible for an after-work hop & pop.. Thanks Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

SO I'm trying to put all the pieces together for my move to Northern California, and I thougth I had performed a search for low moving rates. ANyhow, I was directed to this company: http://www.nationwidemover.com/ Nationwide Relocation Services in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Lucky for me, after speaking with their rep and thinking I was going to go with them, I did a google search for their name and found this: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/movers/nationwide_relocation.html http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/141/RipOff0141213.htm So it turns out that the website that I was using to search for low rates is actually owned by Nationwide, and teh competitive quotes that they provide you with are actually competitive quotes from their in-house sales staff...! I thought I'd pass the word on, it feels like an even more sinister twist on the Skyride scam. They had me believeing that I found their company by doing a legitimate search and it turns out, they were providing a false search to ensure I woudl call them Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

OK, me too... Aircraft: Beech 18 Beech 99 Bell 222 CASA Caravan C-182 C-206 Balloon King Air PAC 750 Pilatus Porter Pitts Biplane Twin Otter DZ's Skydive Greene County - Xenia, OH Wild Wind Skydivers - Saginaw, MI Skydive Tecumseh - MI Skydive Chicago Skydive Arizona Skydance Skydiving - Davis, CA Midwest Freefall - Romeo, MI Merillat Airport - Tecumseh, MI Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

**bump** anybody out there that can help us? Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

We're starting to clean her room out and she's a little disturbed :-\ Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

Yeah, besides the cats still fight (i.e. team clawed vs team delawed, the two clawed cats have earned each others respect)... We have tried to socialized the three cats together but to no avail and now that we are about to move across the country, it's just time to find Ashley a better home where she can actually live undisturbed rather than be delegated to a front bedroom. If anyone can help us we'd be grateful! Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

Congrats, Cat... Glad to see you overcame the physical and psychological barriers to complete the first step inthe journey. I hope I can run into you sometime at a boogie or something... Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

I have put gear and training on credit cards. I justify it this way: The season here is 2/3rds of the year. I spend an entire years worth of fun money in that 2/3rds of the year, knowing that I will be spending my winter working off the jumping I did over the summer. I'm not reccomennding this approach to you, but it did allow me to get used gear, then sell it & get new gear, and make over 400 jumps in 2 seasons. Keep in mind that I gave up my other hobbies (record collecting/DJing and motorcycle touring), and sold off all the stuff that went along with it. I'm also pushing 30 in a career-type job that pays decent and have no kids. I cancelled cable TV and pay less rent than I could afford, as well as driving a paid for 12 year old car. All in all I think it was worth it for me, as I am now at the point where I am getting over the financial hump can start getting ratings if I want, and the gear is paid for. Skydiving has been very rewarding to me but I really have set aside most everything else for the last 2 1/2 years, including doing anything that costs money in the off season. If you don't have enough slack in your budget to make serious payments on the card (like no less than double the minimum payment), then I think it would be a mistake. If you live someplace that gets cold in the winter, at this point you would probably do better just saving over the winter and starting in the spring. I guess my long winded answer to your original question is don't charge up anything that you can't pay back within a year

I think texting and email is *more* convenient. It says "Heres something I have to say that you can read or respond to when it's convenient for you" instead of "halt what you are doing at this moment in time because I want to talk now". I will call you if it's long winded, or urgent, or if I just want to BS... If I have to ask you a quick, non-important, non-urgent question... I will text you so that you can read it and respond whenever you have time. It was a whopping $10 to add unlimited texting to my plan, and the money came from reducing my monthly allowed minutes. I would way rather receive a text from you telling me what you would record in a voicemail message that I have to take the time to play and delete and burn minutes to hear. Text also eliminates the problem of annoying myself and others around me with conversations consisting of "What?! What?! I can't hear you? You're breaking up. It's too loud here. Hello? I'm at XYZ place can I call you back?" but to each their own... Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

we have a caravan and a couple of 182's, we pay $26 to the top in the caravan, and have a sliding scale for the 182 depending on how high you wanna go. I know it's $15 to 5500 because that's usually how high I go... It's a rare day that we do low passes out of the caravan, so if you want to do hop & pops you have to get a 182 load together. Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

Those guys are super cool and much smarter than the rest of us. Therefore, they don't really need their sense of hearing to skydive safely, so it's okay. They don't need to hear their audible altimeter alerts, or the sound of other canopies nearby in the sky. It's all good. And while they're at it, they might as well also wear a blindfold, because they can just use "the force", like those Star Wars guys, instead of depending upon their vision. Long live the Jedi knight skydivers! Or, perhaps they only listen in one ear while riding to altitude... But that wouldn't make any room for sarcasm and judgement laden replies, would it? I think the idea of listening to anything while actually on a skydive is ridiculous, yet I've never heard of anyone actually doing it in real life, either. I occasionally listen to mine on the ride to altitude, and put one earphone in the ear that is closest to the window. That way, the ear that is pointed towards the rest of the cabin is free to hear things like "your shoe is untied" or "EXIT NOW!!". Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

Meat-O of the Sons of Santa MC Ho Ho Ho... Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

don't forget the world famous toga party...! Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

I just got my C license, but unless the size or plan for the jump dictates differently I like to begin my wave-off and pull sequence at 4k. Gives me more time to play under canopy, gives me more time to deal with a mal, etc... And I jump a Pilot so I'm usually spending about 800 feet opening anyways. My Neptune says I've been in the saddle as low as 1800' on a hop & pop, but I'm not particularly comfortable with that so I stopped doing hop & pops from below 3k on this canopy... Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

I'll assume you're joking here and mention for the benefit of others who may read this.... that this is a bad, bad, *bad* idea. Reserves malfunction too. Rigs designed for intentional cutaway have a 3rd parachute on the chest. Check the SIM for the licensing requirements to do an intentional cutaway jump but if I recall it is 200, and the last time I was at a boogie and they were doing skyhook demos they wanted you to have 500. Cutting away on a sport rig for no reason is reckless to you, your pilot, and your DZ. Back on topic, I'm coming up on 400 jumps and no reserve ride yet. Had multiple linetwists before that had me kicking and checking altitude, but I always got out above 2000'. I think If I get to the point where I have not had a cutaway and the opportunity to jump a tertiary rig presents itself, I'll probably jump it to get the experience. Lucky? Smart? who knows... I pack for myself 90% of the time when I'm at home, and usually use a packer at least 50% of the time when I'm on vacation. Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.