steveroome

Obviously a better agreement than "I'll get it back to you with the reserve repacked for a fee of X" might be needed in odd cases like this where people lose touch. I was unfortunately out of the area and sport for a long time due to an injury, a separation, change of job and lack of money. I did try and contact the rigger and I even had someone try and pick it up three times from the DZ within a couple of months of dropping it off. Unfortunately at that time all the chances to pick it up were missed and then the rigger moved away and the DZ changed hands. That's when it appears to have got lost. I chased it a bit more around the time, but had no luck and started looking again for it now that I thought the chap in question might be back in the country. He is back, or at least contactable now, and I do now know roughly what happened. It would be lovely to see my rig again and I'd still like any information in case it is perhaps still locked in the back of a shed or something. I'm not looking to blame anyone, it was just all rather unlucky and now that at least I have contact details for those involved there's maybe, with some kind help, a slim chance I'll see my rig again. Perhaps it's unlikely, but it's worth a shot. On the whole; though receipts and written paperwork for these sort of transactions would be a pain, possibly they'd be useful in more than just this case.

Well, the rigger in question has got in touch with me directly, thank you to him and all others for all your help. He left the kit with the drop zone at Sibson, and like me, probably would have expected that to be safe. (It always seemed very reputable). I can't really find much fault with the rigger for this - at least, I'm sure other riggers would do the same at a supposedly trustworthy drop zone. However, the rig, which at the time was all in date with AAD probably doesn't just vanish from a drop zone without someone selling it, theft, or it being lost in an attic for years. The latter would be nice, but seems unlikely. It would be helpful if someone with knowledge of Sibson from the last four or five years could explain what has happened there during this period so I can get in touch with both the previous and current companies there, especially now I have a reasonable written explanation from the rigger.

good call, but I'd still like the kit back. I don't mind paying for reserve repack mind you, but leaving the country without getting in touch was a bit off.

Hi, does anyone remember the rigger who got carted off in an ambulance from Sibson about three or four years ago - because he stood on a rusty nail (not a serious injury in my mind). I had left my kit with him for a reserve repack and every time I went to pick it up he magically vanished. Since then i've tried talking to the new owners of sibson and have been told to rather unpolitely go away and that it's none of their business. I spoke to the BPA a few times since but haven't had any luck that angle. The only information I managed to garner was that the chap in question had moved to spain ? Surely someone must remembe him or know where he is now ? The container is a black vector, the main is a sabre 170 and it had a recently renewed battery in the cypres (done by the kit store ltd. 6/7/2006) - that has serial no. 50A1CD645DC922 4O. I last saw the kit june around early June 2006 at Sibson, when I left it with the rigger - who was at that time working also as an instructor as there. Ta for any help, steve roome