ITFC 0 #1 June 22, 2001 Does anyone know if this DZ in the Florida Keys still exists and if it has a website ??Cheers for your helpTim Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkymonkeyONE 4 #2 June 22, 2001 Yes, the dropzone is still there and still run by Christian Shoemig. It is a complete tandem factory...period. If you want to go and make a skydive there, you had better be prepared for complete sticker shock. First off, a jump to 10 grand costs $30 out of a 182. Yes, $30. If you do not have two or three friends with you that are also up-jumpers, then you are relegated to just going up with a tandem and video guy. Still, even if you and your friends DO fill a whole plane, you are still paying $30 per person to 10 grand. Also, you better have proper floatation gear. The little aqua bouy thing does not cut it there. If all this is just small shit to you and you still want to do it, you had better call in advance and make sure he will even let you do it. I am in Key West on business at least once every month and a half. I bring my sport gear with me about half the time just in case I feel like driving up to Homestead, but I drive right past Sugarloaf. Christian makes no excuses whatsoever; he is a businessman pure and simple. Every lift that goes up without a tandem on board is money lost to him. And believe me, he keeps them backed up! Anyway, everytime I am down there I end up skydiving for FREE out of nice little tailgate aircraft like C-130s, C-17s, and C-141s onto Boca Chica Key. Boca Chica is the next key up from KW. Sugarloaf is at Mile Marker 23. The attempts I made to jump at Sugarloaf were just to say I had jumped there and to accomodate some of my fellow skydiving travellers who were not military HALO qualified and thus could not skydive out of the AF birds. Poor souls. LOL!Anyway, the number is in the Key West directory, or you could maybe just look up www.skydivekeywest.com.Chuck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
