skyeyeskydiving

*** I'm suprised you haven't heard about it. Close to 1 million acres have burned. Thousands of homes destroyed, and the last count I heard was 16 dead. This doesn't even begin to account for the lost livestock and wildlife. Biggest fires in history out here. Major disaster. I think for a while people thought that San Diego, CA proper was in hot water. Give him time! ;-) I think this is the same guy from UK recdot that just heard (despite the widespread publicity throughout the UK skydiving community for the past two years) that a windtunnel is being constructed (pending suitable fundraising efforts) at Milton Keynes. Crazydave...buy a newspaper dude! ;-) leave the house or clck on bbcnews occasionally! Blue Ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans

Skydive Delmarva is looking for an.... [snip] Blue Ones, Stay Safe. Martin

COME JOIN THE FUN! Spend the Fourth of July Week Jumping Our Twin Otter at Skydive Delmarva & Save Big On Jump Rates! Wednesday the 2nd July $13 Skydives All Day Long! Thursday the 3rd July $14 Skydives All Day Long! Friday the 4th July $15 Skydives All Day Long! Saturday the 5th July $15 Skydives, First load Of The Day, Manifest by 8am! Sunday the 6th July $15 Skydives, First load Of The Day, Manifest by 8am! Sunday the 6th July $15 Skydives, Sunset Load! Free Freefly Load Organizing with Mikey McGrath! Free FS/RW Load Organizing with Sam Joseph! Other Freefly & FS/RW Organizers available as needed! Delmarva Freefly Zone Freefly School! FS/RW Coaching Program! Packers Available! See our Towns Annual Fireworks Display from the DZ! Cookout & Party On The Deck Every Night. Indoor & Outdoor Hot Showers! Free Tent Camping! Trailer Hook Ups Available! TV/Video Lounge! Game Room! Motels & Restaurants Nearby! Close To Delaware/Maryland Beaches & Numerous State Parks & Wildlife Areas! Blue ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans. General Manager Skydive Delmarva Inc. Owner/Operator Sky-Eye Skydiving Services. [email protected] Skydive Delmarva Inc. Laurel Airport. Rd. 5, Box 7C3, Rte. 24 West, Laurel, Delaware, 19956. Manifest: 1 302 875 3540 FAX: 1 302 875 3540 For further information about Sky-Eye Skydiving Services & Skydive Delmarva please visit our websites: www.skyeyeskydiving.com www.skydivedelmarva.com After browsing one please follow the link to the other! "Never confuse motion with action". Ernest Hemingway.

Skydive Delmarva, Laurel, Delaware, USA. No advertising in the forums. Please use the classifieds. ~ sangiro

***well, I guess it is time i introduced myself! I'm not a skydiver yet, still working on the funds....soon though, soon. so, about me, hmmmm. I've been manifest bitch @ skydive aggieland for a couple of months now Quote As others have said, a DZ ought to do all it can to get it's staff jumping whenever they aren't working, it makes for an all round happier community. My manifestors jump for free, that's right for free! Manifestors looking to work at a medium size dz with a large turbine aircraft and a small DZ atmosphere should consider sending me their resume for future employment consideration, I'll take care of you as I do with all our staff and that's the truth (not just lip service)! check us out, www.skydivedelmarva.com email resumes to [email protected]

Master Rigger, be your own boss! I've been trying to post the followihg ad in Employment - Wanted. it won't let me post as it tries to post as a For Sale ad for 30 days rather than the 90 days I clicked. The error message tells me I can't post without adding a price! Blue ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans. For further information about Sky-Eye Skydiving Services & Skydive Delmarva please visit our websites: http://www.skyeyeskydiving.com/ http://www.sk

> I am sad to inform you all that Roger Nelson, DZO of Skydive Chicago > is dead. He was hit, head-on by another skydiver landing in the > opposite direction at about 15 feet today and is now dead. My > sincerest condolences so all his family, especially my friend and > fellow pro swoop competitor, Rook. > > "It's better to burn out than fade away!" > > Chuck Blue > D-12501 > Raeford Parachute Center > Blue Skies, > Jack Does anybody have a full and correct report of what happened to cause this terrible tragedy and information regarding the condition of the other jumper involved. Please don't post speculation. Thank you. Blue Ones (a little greyer today) :-( Stay Safe. Martin Blue ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans. For further information about Sky-Eye Skydiving Services & Skydive Delmarva please visit our websites: http://www.skyeyeskydiving.com/ http://www.sk

Shock after shock keeps entering our world, what a loss. Roger was an innovator and most definitely one of this sports greatest characters. This is just another example of how even the mighty can fall and that non of us are bulletproof, another innovator, implementer & advocate of safe skydiving practices falls. Even with our guard constantly up we are never far from paying the ultimate price for our indulgence in this great sport, what a terrible, terrible loss. Condolences to Missy & Rook and all Rogers family and friends on behalf of Tracey and myself and your skydiving family here in Delaware. We are stunned! So sad! Martin & Tracey.

*** Do you have any data to back this up? Your coach jumps, including gear rental and packing, are $90. Gear is $23, packing is $6, and jump tickets are $20 (or less, I know). That means the coaching costs $21, right? Do you pay the coach more than $21? What do coach jumps at most operations cost? Quote Yes I do have data. Almost all of our coached jumps are done with AFF Instructors who, I feel, will provide a much more comprehensive coaching experience than a newly rated 100/200 jump USPA coach. I would never have the gall to ask a professional instructor to give up a higher paying tandem, AFF or video jump to make a coach jump for a $10/15/20 coach fee, which seems to be the payrate standard for a coach jump at most operations, with the emphasis on the lower side! Additionally, when comparing our rates against others it should be noted that we fly a Twin Otter to around 14,000 feet for these jumps and not a cessna to 9,000 feet, as do many operations that may have a cheaper rate displayed. As far as comparing apples to apples in regards to our fees against other operations you can be sure that I spent the winter season doing extensive research on this subject and I wouldn't make claims that I'm not pretty damn sure I can back up with fact. If you do your own research you'll see that I'm right! Check out all our very preferential rates at www.skydivedelmarva.com and compare to other operations, you'll see that overall, our FJC to A license and beyond skydiving rates are better than comparable to our competition and other operations further afield! Now, I have a point or an issue to raise with you Dave, regarding your constant sniping at pretty much every post I make and rarely are your comments correct or justified. Under normal circumstances this would be fine with me as no one likes a good debate more than I. However, there are a couple of points I'd like to point out regarding these snipes so that those looking in are privy to some information that otherwise they wouldn't be! I'd like them to know that, as the recently resigned president of the UMD, College Park Skydiving Club you and I have a professional relationship of sorts, one that you, I feel, cannot deny has been nothing but cordial on my part. Not only that but I have done all I can to allow your club to benefit and prosper by using the Skydive Delmarva DZ as your clubs home base at very favorable rates and that since I have been the manager things have improved for your club in it's relationship with the DZ, financially and otherwise. Furthermore, when I raised our general student rates here this season I allowed your club, with no requests or input on the matter, to retain the same (or a better than) profit arrangement that you have had for the past few years. No other organization was allowed the same deal. Not only that, even though you are no longer the clubs president and have moved out of state, when you returned to the DZ with a honey in tow a few weeks ago, one that wasn't a UMD club member, I allowed her to make a Tandem jump at not only well below standard client rates but considerably cheaper than she would have been able to make a jump as one of your club members! As you may have now guessed, I take umbrage at your attempts to discredit our operation when all I've ever done for you and your club members is not only treat them very well, financially and otherwise but also on a personal level I have gone beyond that and given you yourself personal preferential rates, so where's the beef Dave? By all means if anyone feels I am being deceitful or making claims I cannot justify, or that I'm just plain wrong about something then please feel free to take issue with it. However, if you are someone that I've always gone out of my way to help or provide benefits for, perhaps if you think things don't add up it would be preferable for your first step to be to approach me privately, prior to coming into a public forum with the intent to cause me anguish with no justified reason. Doing the latter only puts a bad taste in my mouth against you or your organization and certainly doesn't make me feel as if I should take the extra steps to help you out in the future! Those who owe me or our operation nothing are perfectly at liberty to come straight in for the attack if they think it's called for (or not, whatever flips your switch)! If the point hasn't sunk in yet Dave, it's not necessarily this post that I'm taking umbrage at, it's your constant responses, mostly (just those) with no justification that have made this one the one to break the camels back! Hope the DZ your at now has better luck! Blue ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans. For further information about Sky-Eye Skydiving Services & Skydive Delmarva please visit our websites: http://www.skyeyeskydiving.com/ http://www.sk

*** I'm a big guy myself at 6'6" 235#... 277 out the door with tandem gear on... Therefore, the max I'll take is a 200 pounder. Quote in that case I have a couple of questions for you if you wouldn't mind. 1) How do you're co-workers feel about you only taking up to 200 pounders (as you'll get all the chicks all the time I'd guess)? 2) How do you respond to those that bitch that you only carry half the weight they do on a busy day (do they get paid more than you)? These are serious questions from a DZM that would like to hear from someone that I'm sure has been confronted by these situations. Thanks in advance for your input. Blue ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans. For further information about Sky-Eye Skydiving Services & Skydive Delmarva please visit our websites: http://www.skyeyeskydiving.com/ http://www.sk

*** Fun jumps would be great but how many coached jumps are needed for my "A" At our dropzone we require you to make only the jumps you need to in order to complete the requirements on your yellow, A License proficiency Card. Much of these requirements can be fulfilled during your student training jumps so therefore there really is no set number of jumps required at our dropzone, although generally it will take you 3/4 jumps after graduation to fulfill the requirements. Many operations require their AFF graduated students to complete an additional course of jumps (often more than the 7/8 jumps it takes to graduate the AFF program) and even require them to make several coached jumps in disciplines they may not ever participate in, have the remotest interest in and which ability in these additional disciplines is not a requirement for earning an a license and they charge a considerable fee for these 'required at this dropzone' (but not by USPA) coached jumps to obtain an A License! At our dropzone we require you only to make the jumps you need to complete the proficiency card and we charge considerably less per coach jump than most operations, below cost in fact! With the introduction of the ISP program the cost of earning an A License has risen considerably and priced the sport out of the financial reach of a great many potential participants. At our dropzone we are all about building our 'family' and we do our best to keep our rates low in order to do that. Blue ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans. For further information about Sky-Eye Skydiving Services & Skydive Delmarva please visit our websites: http://www.skyeyeskydiving.com/ http://www.sk

Skydive Delmarva in Laurel, Delaware hosts a Scott Miller Canopy Course each season, this year it will be held on the 25/26/27th July. Also with the opening of our new freefly school and the arrival of Mikey McGrath we can offer a course almost daily now. Additionally, I monitor our up and coming jumpers canopy skills on almost every jump and offer advice, tips and tricks along with safety hints whenever I feel input is required (and always of course if it is requested)! We are a Twin Otter DZ open each day except Tuesdays and with a little prior advice it shouldn't be a problem to get canopy piloting help at our operation on a daily or jump by jump basis. Check out our website if you do know of our operation and then contact us from there if you require any additional help or information, or of course you may always correspond with me directly if you wish! Good luck in your quest for further knowledge! Blue ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans. For further information about Sky-Eye Skydiving Services & Skydive Delmarva please visit our websites: http://www.skyeyeskydiving.com/ http://www.sk

Announcing... Mikey McGrath's DELMARVA FREEFLY ZONE At Skydive Delmarva, Laurel, Delaware. Daily Freefly Coaching & Organizing Program. Skydive Delmarva is pleased to announce the opening of our Freefly School, Delmarva FreeFly Zone, operated by Mikey McGrath, one of only 17 freefly instructors in the World officially rated by a National Skydiving Organization. Mike will be available almost every operating day throughout the summer and fall season and onwards at Skydive Delmarva, to service those seeking high quality freefly coaching and organizing in a friendly and relaxing environment which sports a small DZ feel with a larger operations facilities and Aircraft. Come check us out, it's tough to beat our weekday rates and weekend early bird & sunset specials. Our locals are well traveled and friendly and no one is ever a stranger at our operation. We have an onsite gearstore and rigging services and lots of fun to be had for all. We have plentiful facilities, hot showers and grills, cold coolers and beers, 30 amp RV hookups and camping. We fly only turbine aircraft, a Twin Otter at present, our landing area is wide open and flat and all that's missing is YOU! We're going places, why not tag along for the ride? Check out our rates and what we have to offer at our website: www.skydivedelmarva.com ALSO...daily flatfly organizing and coaching with Sam Joseph. This weekend May 30th, June 1st we are hosting the Icarus Demo Team Road Tour, Saturday 14th June is night jumps and our Monthly Awards & Birthday's Party. 19th to 21st June is our CASA Weekend and Summer Blast Off 'Shoestring Boogie', July 12th Awards and Birthdays Party, Friday 25/26/27th July we have the Scott Miller Canopy Skills Camp. We are in the process of adding additional events to our calendar and interested in what you would like to find at our facility, why not drop us a line! Stay posted for further updates and news of camps and events in all major disciplines! Skydive Delmarva, the peninsula's only turbine dropzone! Blue ones, Stay Safe. Martin Evans. General Manager Skydive Delmarva Inc. Owner/Operator Sky-Eye Skydiving Services. [email protected] Home : 302 877 0543 Mobile: 302 462 5795 Skydive Delmarva Inc. Laurel Airport. Rd. 5, Box 7C3, Rte. 24 West, Laurel, Delaware, 19956. For further information about Sky-Eye Skydiving Services & Skydive Delmarva please visit our websites: www.skyeyeskydiving.com www.skydivedelmarva.com After browsing one please follow the link to the other! "Never confuse motion with action". Ernest Hemingway.

Hi there, If anyone from Poland is watching this message board I'm trying to get an urgent message to Skydiver Jurek Gieruszczak who lives near Slupsk by the the Baltic Coast. I was in contact with him until a couple of days ago but now my emails keep bouncing back. If anyone can get a message to him some other way it would be most greatly appreciated. Please post responses to my email account: [email protected] Thanks, BO SS Martin.

So, now that some of the more southerly dz's and a few lucky northern ones have had a couple of months to work with the ISP (Integrated Student Program), how's it working out for you? All positive/negative comments regarding the program from dz ops or jumpstaff and those seeking licensing through the program welcome. I'm sure I'm not the only person interested in hearing about and learning from how it's working out so far! I'd like to thank you in advance for your input. THANKS. BO SS Martin