other people's views on coach jumps

[aero04 0]

Thanks everyone for thier replies. I've got a better idea what everyone else thinks about this subject. Once I get to the point where I could jump with lowtimers, I personally wouldn't have them pay for my slot. I look at it as giving back to the skydiving community. However, I do now understand why one would request you pay thier slot.

[SkydiveNFlorida 0]

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If I don´t use my own gear at the moment, other people can borrow it. If I have nothing else to do, I´ll help newbies to pack. If someone wants to learn anything (that someone else probably have taught me since I haven´t invented anything in skydiving), I´ll be glad to help and pay for the slot myself.

It´s great to get more skydivers to play with in the air, I´m just happy if I can help someone to become better so we can do more fun jumps together in the future.
And who knows, in one year maybe the person I helped have been to boogies all around the world and have things to teach me.

I enjoy practicing the skill to be able to see the real cause of problems and I think it´s a challenge to find out how to give advise that the jumper understands.
And they are always very happy to get advise

That is so cool of you!! I hope I find people like that to help me out:) What comes around goes around. When I first got into reef keeping, I had lots of people help me out. Some gave me things, others with advice, etc. When I ended up getting good at it, i'd sell corals, etc... and would always throw in frags n stuff for free. And, i've got about 2000 posts on the reef forum, .... just helping people with reef issues.

Angela.

[Snowbird 0]

Sunnydee, ditto! Almost to the word.

My thinking is, if the jump is only about me and my skills, then I will happily pay for their slot + a bit. I've paid for plenty of coach jumps, but I've also had lots of the experienced jumpers offer to jump with me. The ones I really appreciated (being that I'm from a small Cessna dz) were when I was only solo rated, just trying to get on a load, and the up-jumpers would put together a 3-way so I could get in as load filler.

And Wendy, thanks to you and every other coach/instructor who gives so much to students/newbie/junior jumpers. It is so apprectiated!

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein

[billvon 3,120]

>So if you are wanting them to use the skills that they had to pay for to get the rating then yes.

I actually think that this is one of the unfortunate side effects of the coach rating. When I was learning to jump, the basics of RW were learned by jumping with other people, who more often than not just asked you along on a jump they were doing. When you got to be reasonably good you did the same. Now we have a coach program that you have to pay to be in, so naturally people want to get paid (or at least get a slot) for passing on the same skills we older jumpers just learned from jumping with more experienced people. It's not neccessarily bad, just different. I'm sad to see early coaching in skydiving change from a philosophy of mutual cooperation to one of fair monetary compensation though.