Rickford56

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  • Home DZ
    Deland
  • License
    D
  • License Number
    5676
  • Licensing Organization
    USPA
  • Number of Jumps
    2000
  • Years in Sport
    35
  • First Choice Discipline
    Formation Skydiving
  • First Choice Discipline Jump Total
    1800
  • Second Choice Discipline
    CReW
  • Second Choice Discipline Jump Total
    200

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  1. Very responsive, flares great for landing. Smooth openings, certainly not hard, on heading. Very pleased.
  2. It came out of a DZ in Casa Grande, AZ (The Gulch) before it was closed by the FAA in the mid 70's for bouncing too many people. Apparently, the FAA has a bounce quota and the Gulch exceeded it. Those people moved mostly to Coolidge, but we picked up a few in So. CA.
  3. I just looked back at my first logbook and Bill signed off 7 of my 21 student jumps. Bill, Gil Revior and Bob Celaya taught me to jump at Perris in '76, Jim Wilkins flew the 206. These were great people and the reason I am still here today, teaching my son to jump as we speak. That's a legacy! Rick Ford D5676