JKappel84

Ok Well its all Planned out I will be down there feb 21st Ready to Jump. I was curious, is your first Tandem a loggable Jump? Can that be logged in my log book towards my jumps?

Excellent, Now I am even more excited. Is there anything I could read in the meantime to get my self ahead of the game slightly so that I am very well prepared for you to teach me. I tend to be a quick learner so having a background with some of this should be helpful if you have anything i should pick up to read. Also Hans mentioned you are only open friday, saturday, and sunday that tiem of year. So would you want to do the ground course the friday afternoon and then start jumping saturday morning? Thanks for all your help...

Sky Dive The Farm....In Rockmart GA. As for the rest I will keep everyone updated and look forward to posting about my success in early march/late feb. We'll see what happens...Take care for now and stay safe

You're right everyone seems to be pretty negative about it. As far as why i chose GA is because My family lives down there and I did my Tandem jump down there as more of a fun one time thing with my brothers and I liked the DZ and the instruction i got was awesome. So i am planning a vaction down there in february and figured while im down there why not go for it. I am in pretty good physical shape, I am a firefighter here in NY and am a gym rat. The gentleman on the phone told me it would be very practical and In my personal feeling having minimal time between jumps is a home run. Everything is still fresh and i guess spacing them out over time is good in the sense that you can kind of run it through your head a little more. But I like the sound of te fact that i can come down and then have my instructor brief me and rather than me saying "Ok next week we can touch on that" i can say "Next jump ill get that right" and my next jump will be right then. But i at least want to do my AFF in those 2 weekends thats the Minimum plan. But i believe in shooting further than i can reach and go for the license cause if it works out then it will be excellent if not its fine too at least ill get my AFF and hopefully some jumps in. But as far as calling me crazy...Arent we all a little crazy? I mean we jump out of airplanes here, and additionally i run into burning buildings, so believe me i take zero offense to being called crazy. In Fact i take it as a compliment

Hey thanks for the response. I called the drop zone I will be doing at it and spoke with the Jumpmaster?is that what they call them? And told him my intentsions. I am planning on heading down to georgia for a couple weeks to get the license because it is warmer there and they are open in february as oppposed to the DZ's here in NY. He had said they are open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday that time of year. So I mentioned I would like to do all 25 jumps including the AFF course if possible over the two weekends i am there (6 days). He told me it is very possible as He will book me for the full 6 days weather permitting ahead of time and be sure that i can get everything for the A license while i am there. I feel it is VERY possible to do 25 jumps including my 6 hour ground course over those 6 days ecspecially after the AFF is done because then it is just continuous jumping correct? But i feel I can atleast get my 25 Jumps mayeb not my A License with the skills you mentioned but At least I can earn my jumps over those days and then come jump season here I guess apply for and take care of everything. The gentleman from the drop zone down there had told me it would be possible to obtain it while I am there. If you know different please fill me on so i can be prepared for it. I will have the time and the money to bang it out over those two weekends but if this is not practical please feel free to inform me so i can plan. Thanks again for all your help.

Hey Everyone, I am from NY and recently did my First tandem jump and obviously fell in love with it. I am going to get my A License this February over a period of a couple weeks and really looking forward to it. I was curious if all of you could toss some advice in my direction from purchasing my own system to skills while jumping and even proper etiquette or anything along those lines. Hopefully others can benefit from this Thread as well. Thanks for all the help I Cant wait till feb.