Curious. I've got my B license and around 80 jumps. Are there any other jumpers or jump pilots at BCP?

Flew jumpers as a sideline job for a while. Was kinda fun, I was planning on just turning my pay into the AFF class but they wouldn't work with me at all on it so I moved on. Skydive206 is active here and has a cool project going on if you search.

Ive got 130 jumps and sometimes put people out of my 182 for fun. I broke myself swooping over a year ago and havent jumped since. Crushed many vertabrae, crushed foot, lost 60% of my blood to internal bleeding, and over a month in the hospital. dont do that.

I haven't jumped in about 2.5 years. I got a new hip from a jump last year. I stopped counting at around 2500 or so jumps. I ran the US Air Force Parachute Team for 4 years, other than I worked DZs all around doing tandems, AFF, video, and so on. I was a DZ bum.

I was a true D.Z. bum. I lived on a dz from the day i was born till i was 5. Then every weekend till i was 17. I used to have the 1st jump course memorized. and had never jumped. I've only jumped 5 times though. Wife won't let me do it... She thinks its too dangerous. I told her the 'equipment' is safe, its the 'operator' thats dangerous. The only ones who get hurt now of days are basically the 'swoopers'.

My dad has 2500 jumps, my mom around 1000. my dad has well over 2000 hrs flying jumpers.

I guess airplanes are in my blood

mmartin1872 wrote:I was a true D.Z. bum. I lived on a dz from the day i was born till i was 5. Then every weekend till i was 17. I used to have the 1st jump course memorized. and had never jumped. I've only jumped 5 times though. Wife won't let me do it... She thinks its too dangerous. I told her the 'equipment' is safe, its the 'operator' thats dangerous. The only ones who get hurt now of days are basically the 'swoopers'.

My dad has 2500 jumps, my mom around 1000. my dad has well over 2000 hrs flying jumpers.

I guess airplanes are in my blood

Who's your dad? Can send me a PM if you want. I know a bunch of the BC jumpers. Also the gang at Medicine Hat, and a bunch of the folks in Stony Plain at that DZ. I lived at the DZ in Alaska for a few years, which is funny because I was active duty at the time and the military paid me for renting a place...little did they know my "apartment" was a hangar I was living out of!

My dad would be Joe Martin. He ran the Chilliwack Skydiving center, and the one in Yarrow before that. Flew C-GSES a C180.

Im up. Full time DZO, http://www.skydiveflyingvranch.com When I found this little piece of property, the guys here were kind enough to answer my questions and put up with me showing off my place, planes. Sold the Twin Otter so Im sure I lost points with the cool skydivers but the wife calls me Mr. ---- now. Hot Rod U206s with big tires are a lot more fun. I have a nice swoop pond and an FX94. Flying is safer but the rush of coming through the trees and skimming the water. The rush will last for 3 days but a Fup will last for ever.

I have around 1,200 jumps, and my riggers ticket, my last home DZ was Skydive Chicago, started flying the otters for Rook. Last jump was in Ixtapa in '06. Came up to Alaska and haven't jumped since. Anyone interested should check our www.diverdriver.com, also jobs come up every once in a while in the classifieds at www.dropzone.com

Head: Good to know that moving to the cold weather got some sense into your head. All of you guys have bigger juevos than me. But looks like lots of fun. Later, FF

Got a whole load of jumps....ran Skydive lake Tahoe for about 10 years.... we started with a Porter, traded it for a hight time King Air(end of dz) flew a T-207 T-185 T-206......went out of the biz....Gas at least tripled in price....half a year operation up here.High altitude,,, lots of Base jumpers who know how to ski real well, but couldnt fly a conopy to, well nevermind, and they dont want to actually PAY to get on an airplane when they can huck the bridge for free....Lodi is still under 20 bucks to jump$.cant compete with that.... I still fly loads out of the 180 over the lake for friends and other super cool locations around Tahoe......I miss flying loads ALL day long .good adventure..............

low rider wrote:Got a whole load of jumps....ran Skydive lake Tahoe for about 10 years.... we started with a Porter, traded it for a hight time King Air(end of dz) flew a T-207 T-185 T-206......went out of the biz....Gas at least tripled in price....half a year operation up here.High altitude,,, lots of Base jumpers who know how to ski real well, but couldnt fly a conopy to, well nevermind, and they dont want to actually PAY to get on an airplane when they can huck the bridge for free....Lodi is still under 20 bucks to jump$.cant compete with that.... I still fly loads out of the 180 over the lake for friends and other super cool locations around Tahoe......I miss flying loads ALL day long .good adventure..............

A bunch of folks miss you being in business though

Ok maybe mine is the historical society page for skydiving/piloting but in the spring of 1972 as a poor farm boy with a PPL in his junior year of college at SDSU, Brookings SD I answered a call for pilots for the skydiving team. That night the lecture hall was nearly full of prospective skydivers when they shut the lights off to show the introductory film on skydiving. From all about the glory of the jump to packing your chute to what can all go wrong in between. 20 minutes later when they turned the lights back on there was only ten or twelve left to actually sign up. Might as well pulled the fire alarm. That weekend I got to see the plane and get checked out in it. A beat up old '61 Skyhawk with 145 hp engine. We pulled the passenger seat out and the passenger side door off and packed two in the back seat and one on the floor by the open door and I flew the first of about a 130 flights in a heavily loaded under powered 172. By my senior year I had dropped 384 jumpers, 9 lake jumpers, three of them butt naked and put two into Coughlin stadium to start the Hobo Day football game (one guy broke his ankle), left one chute tangled in a power line and brought back only three that couldn't jump because the guy who sat on the floor by the open door on the way to the DZ froze up from looking at the world shrinking below as we climbed and he refused to get out blocking the way for the two in the rear seat. He was a Jewish boy from Brooklyn by the name of Harry Wiener. I swear.

It looked like fun so the last weekend of my senior year I was the last jumper of the day, I got the crash course in skydiving from the president of the chapter and he let me jump from 5000 AGL instead of the standard 2800. Static line, of course but there was no such thing as piggy back jumping then. The pilot cuts throttle, holds eighty and its just you climbing out hanging on leaning into the strut, left foot on the step and the right on the top of the wheel and trusting that the pilot had the brakes on. Then you pushed off and back on signal from the jumpmaster. The good old days with a 7TU 28' army surplus parachute. Took forever for a skinny farm boy to get down. I could hear people talking on the ground below. A fun time and a great memory unlike anything else I have done.

That summer the same guy who had trained me gave a demo jump for his girlfriend at her home town. For show he packed the chute with flour for a white cloud effect on opening but put in too much. It lubricated the sleeve on the main chute and it slid off and opened too fast snapping him on the end of the lines like a yo yo after his free fall and then catching his helmet on the bounce breaking his neck, his arm and his leg and he was limp before he hit the ground. At the emergency room they pressed his arm straight since there was a rod inside it from an earlier broken arm that was now bent. Amazingly he survived but is lucky to walk with a heavy limp.

I lost interest in skydiving. Guess I'd rather be the pilot.

ooo you said TU 28'....don't miss those! PC's were the best rounds, though the newer T-10s are alright. Never did get a Pteryldactyl jump...bummer

Thx for the stories! I'll fire up the wayback machine, though I wasn't part of this adventure. Back in the mid 80's I got my first airline job with a little airline based in New Hampshire. We had an impressive fleet of Beech 99's and Dornier 228s. The 228 was a pretty decent jump plane. Square fuselage, big doors, and could climb and descend fast. We would lease it out now and then for boogies at either Turners Falls or Orange, maybe both...can't remember. Anyway, on one load, someone decided that flying under this one particular bridge would be a good idea. They made it through, but as the story goes, one of the jumpers was FAA. Oops. Rumor has it that this flight is on video somewhere, but I haven't seen it. One other interesting tidbit...the seniority #1 pilot is also D-69. Nate's kids still run Jumptown, though his son Gary, D-6969, passed away last year.

I did a few at Lost Prairie in the 80's. Tons of fun, and that was what I was there for. When I had 3 bad ones in a row, I decided it wasn't so much fun anymore, so stayed on the mechanic side of things. Still have lots of friends there and wouldn't trade it or them for anything!
John

Flew a few hundred jumps in the B-90 back in the day. Fun times.

I've never pulled a cord, but I've got 35 T-10C/-1B jumps from C-130s, C-141s, C-17s, UH-60, UH-1, CH-47, LUH-72. Last week I had my first C-23 Sherpa jump. Scheduled for a 0% illumination jump from a C-130 next week with combat equipment. Hope I don't land in horse $#*% again.

Brett

About 650. Most w/82nd airborne sport club. 1st mass jump from c-5a.
Jim

Jumped from 1989 to 1998. About 1500 jumps. SL JM, AFF JM, Strong and Vector tandem rated, Skydive University instructor. About 150 video jumps.
Flew jumpers from 1991 to 1998. Around 3,000 hours worth. 182, 185, 195, 205, 206, Porter, Turbine Single Otter, Caravan, King Air 90, Twin Otter, Shorts Skyvan, DC-3 (FO).
Raised at The Ranch, first two tandems and AFF's there also raised flying right seat in the Otter there. Graduated AFF at Deland and flew there as well. In addition, flown or jumped at; Zephyrhills (both), South Lakeland Airpark, Birdland, Lake Wales, Sebastian, Williston, Clewiston, Palatka, Flagler Beach, Shelburne,VT., Pepperell, MA., Archway-Vandalia, IL., Hinckley, IL., Quantum Leap-Sullivan, MO., Bowling Green, MO., Aurora, MO., Garnett, KS., Crete, NB., Skydive Dallas, Greenville, TX., Skydive Beaumont, TX., Gladewater, TX., Pecan Grove, AR., Hominy, OK, Cushing, OK., Skydive AZ-Eloy, Perris,CA., Brown
Field-San Diego, Skydance-Yolo County, Skydive Oregon-Molalla, Kapowsin,WA., Star, ID.
Probably forgot a few in there. Pretty much covers it though.