Skydive Hastings

[Dutchboy 0]

I am looking for input on Skydive Hastings in Hastings, Michigan. I'm going there in a month for my brother's wedding and want to do a skydive with him while there. I'm particularly interested in what people think about their tandem instructors, etc.

[Doasfu 0]

I'm a static line student at Skydive Hastings, and while I've never done a tandem there, I know most of the tandem masters personally and consider them to be extremely trustworthy and very professional. Hastings is a smallish but growing dropzone, which just last summer purchased a King Air to expand beyond its humble Cessna status. :)
Hastings is good people.
Dan

[lazerq3 0]

Hey dutchboy, although I cant help ya with your question, I grew up in lowell michigan which is about 30 miles away. unfortunatly I now live in utah, but man thats so cool your going to be jumping there. Hey please email me or let me know how it goes becaus when I go home to visit that is where I'd like to jump. Small world.... later
jason

[Doasfu 0]

Hey Jason,
It's a small world indeed. I'm living in Allendale at GVSU right now, but I've spent my whole life in Grand Rapids. I myself am a future ex-resident of West Michigan, so we have much in common.

[lazerq3 0]

DAN
I always wondered if there was anyone on this site that jumps there. I live in Utah and starting my training at Skydive Ogden. I dont think there is anyone here jumping in UT so its cool to kknow someone thats jumping in an area I'm familiar with, zBy the way where ya headed after GV. If I'm ever back there and get to jump thats where I'll be
jason

[Doasfu 0]

Jason,
Don't know for sure where I'm going when I get out of here. I've got another year of college, and the current plan is to go to law school. I think I'm going into personal injury law, representing tandem students with sprained ankles. heh. (ducks)
My only plan is to try living somewhere not in Michigan for a few years, just because I've spent my whole life here. The southwest is sounding awfully nice as this winter that would not die refuses to give way to spring.
It's cool to bump into someone who knows the area. I hope you get a chance to see Skydive Hastings sometime. It's a cool place.
Dan

[Dutchboy 0]

Well guys I used to live in West Michigan. Went to high school in Kalamazoo and college in Grand Rapids (Calvin). When my company went under I moved to Atlanta and haven't been sorry. You can't beat the weather or job market down here. It is also cheap to live here compared to other large cities (4.5 million in metro Atlanta). Just spoke to my brother up in Kalamazoo yesterday. It was 30 F and cloudy up there and 70 F and sunny down here.

[cyberskydive 0]

Hey Dutch!! I'm not super sure about hastings, but during the summertime one of our rigger/AFF/Tandem/ multi rated cool guys from Monroe runs the Napolean Skydiving center in Michigan. He will be taking off in a few weeks I think to begin the season.
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[Doasfu 0]

Wow, from West Michigan and with a name like "dutchboy." Now that makes sense. And I'll have you know it was well above 32 here yesterday!
Dan

[Dutchboy 0]

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Wow, from West Michigan and with a name like "dutchboy." Now that makes sense. And I'll have you know it was well above 32 here
yesterday!

Yeah, it wouldn't be a good nickname if I was still up there. There are more Dutch people in West Michigan than in Holland. I was in Grand Rapids when they took the census, they just rolled a penny down the street and started counting all the people trying to chase it. Perhaps my brother meant that it was 30F when I talked to him last night, and not during the day.