CrunchbiteJr

Now, my skydiving day. Turned up at 8:45 as asked and the promised "booking in" was not forthcoming, instead a bunch of people just waiting around. Eventually got in and things started to show signs of deteriorating. We were led upstairs and all our details taken and essentially told "There's ten of you, by law I can only teach a group of 5 so I'll get another instructor". 45 mins later and nobody had heeded his multiple calls over the tannoy, and this set the tone for the day. The people willing to teach were enthusiastic, patient and excellent. That was a whole 2 people. The rest made us feel unwelcome and were FAR more interested in their own jumps than anything else. It got to about 4-ish and Steff with family turned up and we only had one bit of training left to do. The cloud had risen and some newbies were going up to do it, it looked promising...for the first time we were getting pumped at going up and were RARING to go for the final bit of training. At that point NO trainers were around for an hour and a half...because they were up jumping or on cigarette breaks. Cloud came over, we didn't finish training until 7 by which point it was raining and I was tired and exhausted. Now I know the whole club shouldn't dance to the tune of people on a one day course but being made to feel very unwelcome isn't on. It was less a place to experience skydiving and more a place for them to hang out with friends and have a laugh. The president of the club lying out on the airfield having a laugh with everyone when groups of paying customers were stuck waiting for over an hour whilst those supposed to teach went up for a few jumps is just not professional. If you ever get the chance to go to the Skydiving Strathallan then just remember, no matter what anybody says it's NOT welcoming and it's NOT a place for anybody remotely new to the sport or outwith the existing members cliques.