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Hi Wendy, I am in NW Arkansas now but I get down to Houston and Galveston frequently. My son lives in Houston and also has a house on Tiki. I had a nice but too short visit with John last time I was down there in April. First time I had seen him in almost 40 years and except for the white hair he looked just the same. I'm coming back to Galveston in late July and I might make a trip over to Spaceland just to do the wuffo thing. I'll try to get John to come along too. I might even luck out on a free beer if there is a SCR ceremony and it is not past my bedtime. I do hope they still let the old farts participate. John has promised to keep me posted on the next reunion. There was an Old Spaceland reunion going last time I was down but none of the participants on the list were from my generation except John so I didn't go with him. I jumped in Dickinson and Cleveland but quit before the Old Spaceland DZ got started. We did leave from there a few times when the airstrip in Dickinson was too muddy to fly but always jumped into Doc's.

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I just saw a post on a new thread about a young lady getting her A license after her 68th jump. I know a lot of things have changed since I made my last jump almost 40 years ago but I was just wondering if this is normal? I never got a license nor aspired to one back in the early '70s but I did jump with a lot of people who had them. With money in short supply I figured I could send in money to join USPA and get a license or I could make 5 more jumps. My logbook from that era says you could get an A license with 10 jumps, a B in 30, a C in 80 and a D in 205. I know those numbers have changed since then and I wonder if it is mainly due to the square canopies used now? Just for fun I had a look back at what I was doing on my 68th jump and had to grin. It was a 2-man kiss pass (yes, with a girl but it was still a 2-"man" in those days) with a female jumper who was new to the V-Mills DZ and wanted to do RW. I had a double malfunction on that jump that ruined my 26' conical reserve but I remember that I did get lucky later that night.

[airtwardo 7]

Same here, I only got a C license so I could get my JM & I ratings and only got those actual 'ratings' when I moved away from my home DZ and was working at a commercial DZ near my college...I'd been teaching S/L ers for a few years without the rating.

Years later I only got a D for a PRO rating...again because I was doing demos commercially and it was obvious that's the way the winds were blowing, it was a marketing tool more than a measure of competency.


MY 68th jump was a style series in a local Midwest competition. I did well in the meet but didn't get lucky afterwards.

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

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Yeah, I got my C because I was moving and wanted to have the credentials for a new DZ; the D was to get my AFF rating.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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Jump #380, 1970 with 'The Family" Hinckley, Ill.

Pat Works nee Madden Travis Works, Jr .B1575, C1798, D1813, Star Crest Solo#1, USPA#189,

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I just saw a post on a new thread about a young lady getting her A license after her 68th jump. I know a lot of things have changed since I made my last jump almost 40 years ago but I was just wondering if this is normal? I never got a license nor aspired to one back in the early '70s but I did jump with a lot of people who had them. With money in short supply I figured I could send in money to join USPA and get a license or I could make 5 more jumps. My logbook from that era says you could get an A license with 10 jumps, a B in 30, a C in 80 and a D in 205. I know those numbers have changed since then and I wonder if it is mainly due to the square canopies used now? Just for fun I had a look back at what I was doing on my 68th jump and had to grin. It was a 2-man kiss pass (yes, with a girl but it was still a 2-"man" in those days) with a female jumper who was new to the V-Mills DZ and wanted to do RW. I had a double malfunction on that jump that ruined my 26' conical reserve but I remember that I did get lucky later that night.

Hi SCS

The sport/industry like everything else has slowly evolved over time for various reasons.

AFF, tandems, Turbins, the internet, USPA GMDZ program, to mention just a few of the reasons.

I'm sure someone will correct me again if I'm wrong but I think for fun fun jumpers now having a liscense means that are no longer students because they now have a "offical USPA skydiving liscense " The big "A". And is highly encouraged by USPA and the MDZ's

As a fun jumper we were like a lot of you all. Never considered getting a "A" don't remember why we got our "B" 7881." Almost back in the day" our log books were good enough except for the nationals, rateings etc.

We finally got our D (12401) I think While jumping with the FT Lewis jump club. We didn't get our D for the ability to get a rateing it was so while jumpering out of army choppers for a $1/day we could choose our own foot wear, instead of boots and a frap hat instead of a hard shell helmet.

The club set up the water jump, boats etc and we were able to use their student gear. It was worth getting a D to go back to jumping teva's and a frap hat..

Personally my SCR 2719 number means more to me than the USPA license's.

68 jumps with all the repeat AFF jumps etc to get a "A" License is very $$$$, but I'm sure the lady is a much safer jumper.

Kudos for the lady sticking with it and achieving her goal to become a licensed jumper, And the DZO and staff for continuing to help her achieve her goal.

R.

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Krip, I see you got your SCR back in the same era I got mine and I have always been proud of mine too. I think I heard Biden whisper in my ear that it was a BFD!!!!! Not so much now I guess but for the pioneers of the sport it was an important milestone.

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We did not have SCR in my days. It was a challange to achieve a 3-man star or a baton pass between 3 jumpers.

As far as licenses, some of us were in no hurry to apply. In my case it was around a year after I got my C. I would have not applied then had George Gividen not harrassed me so much for not getting it. When I finally did I got #604?? (I think!). I qualified shortly after Carlos Wallace got his, so my number would have been quite a bit lower had I had the interest in applying.

I preferred using my money to pay for jumps. Most of Carlos' jumps were free.

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