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Prove it lol

I havent been at the DZ when PJ was there in months or

Wes must be the team leader huh?

When I ordered they said 7-8 it came in 6.5. Smart will be in next week(7 weeks) and I was told today that my Spectre will be here at the later part of May which will have been 10-11 WEEKS!

Chile! where you at bro?

Everyone is looking too far into this. I intentionally left out all the operating costs b/c I cannot provide the numerous costs to show a end profit. Just look at the numbers with a open mind, and forget trying to make it even close to accurate.

I agree that the number are not accurate, but 20 tandems a weekend for a estimated 45 weekends is about right on average for the year. I did not intend on it being a operating budget for audit, just numbers to represent what could be made before you add in your operating costs. Take it for what it is, a number of slots a year, and a price to jump added up to see what it comes out to.

I agree. My experiences so far have been that my DZO cares freaking TONS about his regular jumpers. From what others say individually and as a whole, that is not always the case due to DZO's personal ethical reasons which can be poor. For some there is a general understandable want to survive as a business which can only be supported by tandems bumping jumpers for slots.

Wow VIBES!!! it goes to show make the best and most of your time here everyone.

There is no point against anything or anyone, it is just some numbers I tried to play with to put out on paper showing what we already know.

In my perfect Otter world I think without video guys you would get 9 slots for tandems at $175 a head equaling $1575 a load full of tandems. Jumpers get 18 slots at $20 a slot equaling $360 a load If jumpers wanted to throw a mutany at this DZ X take over and say "Fuck the Tandems' we want to jump this Air Ship (/Pun) The jumpers would have to pay $87.50 a slot to equal what the dz would make if they only jumped tandems. So $87.50 is what a slot is worth if that is what you were looking for.

I think that he wants to conduct the drill in the safest manner possible which would include some seperation. I think that everyone realizes that in an emergency it will be an acceptable risk to not give as much seperation than ride the plane to it's possible doom.

"This is not about any DZ, just a discussion about what it might look like to run a DZ with an Regular Twin Otter, just numbers to think about." You always hear that tandems are the big business, and keep a DZ open, or keep a DZ's large plane. If DZ X makes 45 loads a year due to bad weather on some weekends and this DZ brings up an a average of 20 tandems a weekend at $175.00. That means in a year not counting all the stuff like fuel, pilot, gear, paying the jm that dz will bring to the table $157,000.00 in tandems alone. Say that the DZ has a bad year and only gets 4 tandems a weekend that comes out to $31,500. If that same dz is open 45 weekends and takes up 20 loads of jumpers, with just 15 jumpers per load at $20 a person that DZ makes $270,000.00 If you make all the loads short loads with only 9 jumpers on the load that comes out to 162,000.00 If you fly the same number of loads, but you put 18 jumpers in the otter every load you stand to bring in $324,000.00 It takes 9 regular jumpers at $20 a jumper to equal a $175 tandem Combined that makes a good year of tandems and jumpers come out to $427,000.00 A bad year comes out to 193,5000.00 A good year of Tandems and a bad year of jumpers is $319,000.00 A bad year of Tandems, and a good year of Jumpers is $301,500.00 If you could be so lucky to fly full loads of tandems all year long at 175 a jumper you would make $1,638,000.00!!! a year Of course that is not calculating operating costs and all that, just some numbers to look at. So that means if DZ X cannot jump tandems it stands to loose $127K a year, and it could only make up $54K of that by flying 18 jumpers per load. My math sucks my head hurts, but I think I got some numbers to look at for fun.

As for the case on the 22nd are we allowed to come show support in the court room?

I know I drove home one day hitting refesh on the wireless search button, and found out if there was a program that would switch from router to router in a fast kinda way I could surf the net all the way home. That is if I dont hit a tree along the way.

I tore my knee playing golf. Damn you adam sandler!, and damn my stupidity. I was running towards the ball like he did in happy gilmore, and swung too hard and over rotated my knee For me golf: not safe

I like how all the morons keeps saying that the video is a fake!

I was at the tunnel last week. My luck was that South West over booked my flight home, and now I have a $320 free ticket good for a year!!!! I smell another trip back!

I understand that work with flying objects might be taking place, but we jump on the weekends and a FEW times on weekdays through the year. How many weekends are they gonna be flying those damn things that we are gonna interrupt. There is also the possibility that we might always be over the top of their property in a landing pattern, and there is the chance that someone may land on the property.

Congrats on reaching your dream and having the courage to post that picture.

Feel free to post with updates........... By that we mean pictures of the affected area...lol

I had something like this happen the other day, I pulled and had a longer than normal snivel and realized that on opening I tend to hold my right hip about 4 -6 inches lower than the left side after the P/C had sat me up. Luckily for me the snivel I was talking about lasted long enough that I noticed it and quickly sat up straight and evened my hips out. I was even before it opened up, so no twists. It was a hell of a snivel a piece of the fabric had gotten caught in a slider grommet and kept it from comming down for a second or two.

I left messages with the airport authority, the airport manager, and the Southern FAA Rep. None returned my calls today.

Bump please donate, and thank you to all who did, Loosing any part of Gold Coast will be like having our child hood home demolished Thanks again.

It's been 6 weeks yesterday for me