mdrejhon 8 #1 April 28, 2008 Hey, I started keeping a tunnel logbook and I now have 3h40min tunnel time total! That's more freefall time than I have in my skydiving logbook! Team Evolution (the Canada 4-way champions) had a tunnel camp last weekend and I did almost 2 hours of tunnel in one day, in the form of 3-way and 4-ways! Martin and Vincent Lemay and others. You Canadians in Ontario and Quebec has got to go to one of these tunnel camps sometime. Towards the end, they let all of us fly on our own without any coaches in the tube except watching through the glass! I started one-on-one and was able to do 3-way and 4-way with them -- dramatically cutting your windtunnel costs and you get to be able to afford to do an hour of tunnel time at only one quarter the cost because the 4 people split costs for a 4-way. That means about 3 or 4 dollars per minute -- compare that to $35 per Canadian jump or $25 per U.S. jump. Once past the one-on-one required training before being capable of 3-way and 4-ways in the tunnel! So I'm racking up the tunnel time now.... Don't need that many jumps -- I have seen 100 jump wonders doing 3-ways and 4-ways by themselves at this tunnel camp! (After an hour of one-on-one in the wind tunnel, even 500 jump wonders needed coaching when flying tunnel for the first time -- the tunnel is tricky at first; don't be discouraged, spend the full hour with a good coach and then you can do 3-way and 4-way in the tunnel, as a casual novice/intermediate group) I also got some information on the opening of Skyventure Montreal, Team Evolution has a close relationship with the people behind Skyventure Montreal... (My personal guess for SV Montreal opening: First half 2009, if groundbreaking occurs in spring as planned. The 2009 estimate is not their word -- it's mine based on what I have heard + a safety margin based on what I've seen of historical Skyventure delays after actual groundbreaking.) The SVNH people are great, I feel sorry for SVNH who might lose some of my business if Skyventure Montreal opens, because it will become a 2 hour versus 7 hour drive! Maybe Vincent could continue to hold tunnel camps at both, since some people live closer to SVNH, and Skyventure Montreal will probably be slightly more expensive (albiet not for me: The gas costs are getting pretty high these days) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #2 April 28, 2008 One other thing to keep in mind: the Montreal tunnel will be the same chamber size as the Eloy one.Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
