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Saturday and Sunday - 27-28. $80 ride, see you there, New Year's Eve bash and diner/fireworks (not all at the same time. midnight jumps and more Wednesday night woohoo!! Z-Hills TK

Martin and Mike at Z-Hills are organizing Freefly tunnel camps starting in January January 17-18 - two day Camp, $650 each for up to 4 people, - 30 minutes tunnel time - 10 organized jumps over the weekend - Tunnel time Saturday evening 3-4pm and 6-7pm - food, gas included January 31 - Mini Camp, one day $375 each for up to 4 people - 15 minutes of tunnel time - 5 jumps with organizing - Tunnel Time Saturday afternoon 3-4pm - food, gas included Book through Martin at martin@digitalmindsinc.com or call TK at Skydive City with your credit card info (800) 404-9399 or email me directly for more information woohoo!! TK

We are re-structuring the Cessna Ways to be held at Z-Hills in January. We never thought the Thailand Boogie would really affect us, but it has. So instead of 100 ways, we are planning 40-50 ways with 12-13 airplanes. All the airplanes that we need are confirmed at this point, we do have openings for jump slots since a few people have backed out at the last minute as well. Details: Jan 17-18 - Big ways from the Otters, up to 5 jumps a day Jan 19-20-21 - Up to 5 jumps a day from the Cessnas. Dave Ruckert, Derek Thomas, Boxman, all helping to organize, Norman Kent and Tony Hathaway online for video, Lance Aikins taking care of the aircraft. Banquets and fun goodies all included in tha pckage for the new cost of $725. If you are interested or need more info, you can send $$ to TK Hayes attn:Skydive City, PO Box 1599, Zephyrhills, FL 33439-1599 or fax credit card info to 813-782-0599 Contact me tk@skydivecity.com for any further info. The 100 Way will be rescheduled for next year about the same time, to be announced later. Thanks everyone and see you there. TK

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8 teams are underway today, results to follow, weather is great, planes are flying. 8 way tomoorow and 16 Way Saturday. Band, Dinners, beer, and more - see you there

Thanksgiving Boogie is underway with Boxman, Derek, Guy organizing big ways all week long, We have competition days Thurs thru Saturday so if you have a camera and want to film some teams, then check in Thursday am, as we will probably need a couple extras. Band Saturday night, dinner every night, freeflying load organizing and competitions as well good time so far, flew lots this weekend, the weather is great! www.skydivecity.com TK

Always comes up each year. We are trying to keep a list of what countries and what organizations offer their members some form of insurance while they are skydiving in the USA. Otherwise we generally ask them to buy USPA temp membership insurance. What does your country do for insurance? Are you covered abroad? Send me what details you can, your country's organization contact info or the policy if you have one so we can compile a list of countries for our winter season. ie.e Canadians with a CSPA membership, who reside in Canada are covered here in the USA. thanks for any info TK Hayes

The current Cessna World Record Organizer, Da3ve Ruckert is hosting and inviting you all to come and be part of an amazing event. 100 People from 27 Cessna's to build the world's largest Cessna Formation Skydive. The dates are set, the aircraft are in place. the invites have been sent to those we know and you are welcome to participate by contacting us directly or Dave Ruckert for the event. Organizers: Dave Ruckert ruckert@ozemail.com.au Derek Thomas derek@sunpath.com Boxman Bill Engel boxorg@aol.com TK Hayes tk@skydivecity.com Chief Pilot, Lance Aikins aikins01@aol.com or (360) 893-5321 Information: (from Dave himself) The plan is to build, from 12500 feet, a 100 way jumping from a formation of 27 Cessnas. The dates of the Cessna 100 way are January 17-24th, 2004 at Skydive City Zephyrhills, Florida USA. Please check out www.digitalskydive.com for all information related to this event. We will be updating the web site as necessary. For some of you, this invitation is arriving later than expected. I have lost some time due to the very tragic death of Lee Loncasty here in Australia. She was not only a close friend but also my wife's' sister. My apologies for the delay. Briefly, our schedule is as follows: Arrival day for most people will be Friday January 16th. Our first get together is 8:00 AM Saturday Jan 17th, Skydive City Drop Zone. Saturday and Sunday 17-18 January we will be building the 100 way formation from 5 large aircraft (usual Twin Otter formations.) Sunday and Monday morning, the Cessnas will all be arriving. Starting noon, Monday we will begin jumping from the Cessnas. During the 8 day event, we will have a welcoming banquet, and a farewell banquet, dates of the banquets to be finalized soon. The cost of the Cessna 100 way are as follows: $1150 USD. $150 deposit due immediately. This deposit guarantees you a slot, and is non refundable, no matter what. A total of $500 USD is due December 1, 2003. The balance of the $1150 is due January 1st, 2003. You may of course pay the total all at once. All money received will be held in an account in your name at Skydive City. What your money gets you: Up to 30 jumps two banquets the usual T-shirts, goodies a world class camera team headed up by Norman Kent the organization (piece of cake) and the planned 27 Cessnas! Send all money to: Skydive City attn: Cessna 100 Way. P.O. Box 1599 Zephyrhills, FL 33539. You may fax CC details to (813) 782-0599. All credit cards are accepted but Diners Club. Do not email your credit card details. Send Check, money order, and/or credit card details. We have a lot more in store for the event, but that is the meat and potatoes of the gig. Again, check out the web site for updates. I leave Australia on July 22d for the US. (yes Dave is here and getting the event ready-TK) and will be at the Lost Prairie Boogie in Montana as a load organizer. We also have arranged motels at $44 a night double occupancy at the Crystal Springs. (hotel list) Thank you for now, be safe, skydive! Dave Ruckert. Please include the following: Name Full mailing address # jumps phone # fax # Brief skydiving history with a focus on large formations email address (yes, I know, I already have nearly all of them, but do it anyway) Height Weight Bullet proof skydiving slot (eg base, early/late diver etc) Anything else you deem important (i.e. # of jumps this year etc)

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1. find a different dropzone 2. if you have pulled that many times and lived, then there is no reason to not progress you to 10 second delays so you have a chance to get to terminal and feel the air. My personal opinion is that most instructors themselves could not do a perfect 3 second delay, so why do we make students to it to perfection....? TK

"That guy can track like a set of car keys" Billy Porter

Our Calendar of events is up to date at: http://www.skydivecity.com/news/calendar.htm and the latest Cessan 100 Way news and page is here at: http://www.skydivecity.com/news/events/cessna100way.htm see ya there TK Skydive City/Z-Hills recent email changes - tkhayes@skydivecity.com is now tk@skydivecity.com tkhayes@tkhayes.com is now tk@tkhayes.com

the DZ has invested WAY Mor ethan the videographer in HIS /HER business, that is why they should also get a cut. The DZ is not there because of th etandem video. The tandem video has a job because the DZ is there

only had one experience with Mack, they refused to fix the camera, said it was damaged by me. (it was not). Said they had final say on what was warranty and what was not. I was not a happy customer. Extended warranties are at best a scam if you read up on the reports for consumer org's etc. - very few are worth it. put the money int he bank and use it to repair whatever breaks.

I have posted this before and am posting it again for those in the need, We run regular blood drives at Skydive City/Z-Hills and have accumulated 187 blood credits. We seem LOTS of people getting injured and we never see anyone asking for the use of these credits, so if you have friends, skydivers, whatever and they are heading to surgery and need blood products, we have credits that can be extended to them. We need the patient's name, name of the hospital, and location, etc and the general types of products needed. This not only saves them money but can help save a life too. Let us know anytime, we can put you in touch with the right people at our blood bank, thanks TK Hayes Skydive City

Hi Everyone, Just a quick update from Skydive City, Z-hills on some of the exciting events we have scheduled for our upcoming winter season. Enjoy the awesome full moon from a different perspective this Oct 11th – two and a half miles above earth! We plan to do some RW on this night jump so call to reserve your slot. Cost:- a jump ticket plus $ 5-for strobe rental and chem-lites. (Night jumps also planned for the next full moon on Nov 8th) The weekend of Oct 31st- Nov 2nd is a great time for freeflyers to head on over. Stan Gray and Chris Fiala of “Elsinore Eclipse” will be organizing – fun Freeflying, coaching and video. This coincides with our Halloween Costume Party – imaginative, sometimes outrageous but always an extremely fun evening. Enter into the spirit and make sure you dress up – a free day of jumping to the “Best Costume” winner! (see previous photos on website). We’ll also be running our Pumpkin Drop competition over the weekend – great prizes to be won. For all those swoopers or ‘would-be’ swoopers out there Ian Bobo and Heath Richardson of the P.D. Factory Team are hosting another Swoop Camp on the 8th/9th Nov. 10 jumps over two days – pond swooping with coaching - $ 185- prepaid or $ 200- after Nov 1st. Nov 21st-30th sees the 35th anniversary of our annual Thanksgiving Boogie. In addition to our fleet of Super Otters we will also be offering Bi-Plane jumps on Fri, Sat & Sun at only $ 80- each. We have Derek Thomas, Boxman and Guy Wright organizing Big Ways throughout the week and other organizers available for smaller groups. There will be 4 / 8 / 10 & 16 way competitions, High Altitude jumps and a Freefly 4 way Speed Scrambles competition too. As always, lots of partying, good food on offer, bands and unlimited ice- cold beer to round off a busy day!! To see exact dates for planned events check out our calendar of events at www.skydivecity.com. Jump tickets to 13500 are $ 18-00 each, 20 blocks available for $ 17-50 each or 50 blocks at $ 17-00 each. Please note, blocks of tickets are not refundable and can no longer be shared or resold. If you want to be removed from our mailing list you can unsubscribe at our website or by replying to this e-mail. Blue Skies Tracey

if you want it to really be successful, tie in an online web-based reservation system and possibly credit cards payments with the process.

Another weekend of training and swooping at Lake Mottski at Skydive City. $185 for 10 jumps over 2 days, coaching by Heath Richardson and Ian Bobo, possibly Shannon as well. Room right now for 10 more people, can add a coach f 10 more decide to come after that. $200 fee after November 1, so send us your money today. ET Where are you and are you coming back? be good TK www.skydivecity.com

Petey has left us for a new flying job - Randy is back with us starting today. Woohoo! Dave Ruckert is even in town now until the Cessna 100 Ways in January so he will be out and about and doing some jumping if you want to jump with him. Also Scotty Carbone is rumored to be spending the winter here - things just get better and better. Bi-Plane Pitts coming for the Thanksgiving Boogie - woohoo! Lots to see, do and be part of ion our calendar at www.skydivecity.com TK Hayes

We have some cool photos from the Pond Swoop Meet this past weekend. 12 competitors, $1000 in cash (Ian Bobo won that) and lots of other draws and prizes were given away. Laura played the chief judge and thanks to everyone else that helped with the judging http://www.skydivecity.com/news/news_stories/PondSwoop0903/album.htm Especially thanks to ERIC HILDEBRAND - who did a super job in organizing the whole event and raising $$$ and the prizes. Also for the nude and panties jumps - thanks again everyone TK Hayes Skydive City

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We are having a Pond Swoop Competition at the new pond at Skydive City this coming weekend. Entry is only $30. We have many prizes, cash, gear certificates and more. Eric Hildebrnd is organizing it and we are planning for Saturday Night registration, Sunday Meet. We need to know form you: Name: Number of jumps: Home DZ: Profession: Canopy make, model and color: Swoop experience: Competition experience: Best overall finish: Anything else we should know?! send to manifest@skydivecity.com, see the web page as well for more information at www.skydivecity.com see ya TK

Pond Swoop camp this weekend, Scott Miller canopy school Sept 5-6-7, Pond Swoop competition plus more over the Labor Day weekend, www.skydivecity.com calendar for more info see you there TK

If you have a Cessna available for hire in January, we need you in Z-Hills with a pilot. Need to know all the basic info, N-number, what you want $$ wise, how many it carry, (plan on 12500' attempts), ferry, slots, etc, and get that info with your contact info to Lance Aikins aikins01@aol.com or call 360-893-5321 We need 27 airplanes total, the event is a go so far and we have many lined up. TK Hayes Skydive City tkhayes@skydivecity.com