Going to a new DZ on Student Status..

[Thanatos340 1]

After setting what has to be a new record for the longest time ever to complete AFF, I finally graduated a few weeks ago. Great!! Now I am cleared for Solo which means I can afford to jump....
I show up at the DZ the next weekend and I am greeted by a very disappointing sight!! There is a Padlock on the gate. It seems that the DZ has been shut down (temporarily we hope) thanks to some false allegations and Airport Politics. That was 3 weeks ago. The DZO is busting his ass trying to it reopened but it will be a little while longer before we know.

So now I am faced with a dilemma.
Should I just try to wait it out and see if the DZ gets reopened (we should know something in another week or two) or try one of the other DZ`s in the area. Being that I am still on student status and have been jumping ripcord rigs up till now (the other DZ`s in the area use Hand Deploy Rigs) I will have redo training on their equipment and I am sure they will want to display some proficiency before they let me Solo (Read added costs) or just save my money and jump my ass off if/when my DZ gets reopened?

Is it better to stay current or stick with the same instructors/program you started with?

[lazyfrog 0]

my advice would be to jump at other DZ's, and you'll learn how to jump with a hand deploy.
And you'll jump.
and when you go back to your original DZ, don't forget to visit other places, different people can teach you different things. And you see different girls too
Oh, by the way, CONGRATS and BEER for your AFF

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ourson #10, Mosquito Uno, CBT 579

[towerrat 0]

If your DZ closed three weeks ago and you won't know anything for another week, that will make at least a month since your last jump, but I'm guessing more like five weeks. I have 400 jumps and if I miss a week of jumping I feel uncurrent. I would find the next best DZ and get my ass in the air and stay there. If it costs a little more so be it. You can't sit around and go uncurrent again.
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[mr2mk1g 10]

do it. Im in a uni club and we visit dozens of different DZ's with our students. Just so long as they are fully briefed there should not be an issue.

I must have done my raps training at at least half a dozen airfields myself. Just get a FULL DZ orientation and a full brief. You have to swap to through out at some point so there's no real biggy there. the air's the same wherever you go.

[Casch 0]

Go ahead and jump at a diff. DZ. I've jumped at 3 so far and I've not yet got my "A". The first DZ that I went to other than my home DZ had pretty old rental gear which made me a little nervous at first. I figured what the hell! People have been jumping this gear for years without incident! lol. My home DZ has BOC mounted rip-cords for rental gear and this DZ had chest mounted rip cords. I did about 100 imaginary ripcord pulls before boarding the plane, and did the same thing on the way to 10,000 ft in a 182 (plenty of time for practice). I had no problems. Stay current and go to other DZ's

[kelpdiver 2]

And what do people think about going to another DZs before finishing the AFF progression? I'm sitting at L4 and am looking to be out of town the next 3 weekends, including stops in Miami and Vegas. I'd rather not sit on the ground too many weeks - definitely doesn't help me get my legs problem solved. I would opt for one whose student gear uses the throw out BOC only - no interest in temporarily dealing with ripcords.

1- Are DZs there going to be happy doing a L4 with someone they've never seen before?
2- Should I treat it merely as logged flight time - and then come back to do l4 again at home base?
3- if yes to 1 and 2, who to go to?

[flyinchicken 0]

1- Are DZs there going to be happy doing a L4 with someone they've never seen before?
2- Should I treat it merely as logged flight time - and then come back to do l4 again at home base?
3- if yes to 1 and 2, who to go to?***

Your best bet is to talk to the S&TA at your home DZ. Ask them to make a lil phone call to the DZ you will be visiting. More than likely between them they will come up with a solution for you which will keep everyone informed and SAFE.
I was training here in Canada on static line, went for a trip to Cali and did L1 there after 3 static line jumps. When I got back to my home DZ they let me skip one static line jump, I lost a lil money but got to stay current with my jumping and was a lil further ahead when I returned home.

"Diligent observation leads to pure abstraction". Lari Pittman

[sundevil777 102]

Keep jumping!

Show up early at the new DZ, do not be demanding. If you impress the right people they are likely to give you a break.

A call to the new DZ may help, or they may be defensive and not give an inch. A call may confirm that your instructors/jumpmasters are jumping there now also, and that could help a lot.

Good luck.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[cliff 0]

I think that you should go to another DZ.

When you buy your first rig, it will likely be BOC throw-out deployment. Go ahead and get trained up on one now.

You'll also get to jump into a new landing area, maybe jump a different aircraft, and definitely meet new folks. All good experiences.

I travel quite a bit, so for my first 25 skydives I jumped at 3 different DZs in 3 different states. I got to benefit from different perspectives early on.

Just make sure you bring your log book.

cliff