marks 0 #26 October 1, 2004 QuoteQuoteYep, Girls weekend!!!!! Got an email in to find out what's gonna be on the menu.... I'll let you know soon as I hear. Can't really say as far as how small. I've only been to PC and ASC at Cedartown GA. It's a lot smaller that than Cedartown. The DZ is basically a decent size hangar, very large target area and we have a Porter for regular weekends (typically 20 min. ride to 14K). I doubt that there will be any other AC brought out for the weekend, but I could be wrong. If you do decide to come up, just be aware that the traffic is going to be hellacious on I-20, there's a race at Talledega this weekend (and that's right next door, you can see the track on the ride up). I'll let you know what I find out. You need to be aware of the possibility of ATC shutting the DZ down during the race because of the amount of air traffic around the track. I have seen it happen several times in the past. I haven't jumped there in a couple of years, except for practice jumps for demos. I usually go up to Cullman, where they have their own King Air. 8 to 10 jumps a day, even on non-boogie weekends, are easily possible. To each their own, but I hope you guys won't get shut down this weekend. Just call ahead and find out what the odds are. If management is smart, they'll contact ATC and the FAA just to make sure. You don't want to have surprises. I-20 is only really bad eastbound to Pell City in the mornings, especially on Sunday, and REALLY bad westbound to Birmingham after the main race is over. I can remember taking the back roads from south of Birmingham to Pell City for a Mullins King Air boogie on race weekend years ago, probably 1996, and being on the first load at 8 AM sharp that Sunday, and looking out the door at I-20, which was bumper-to-bumper from the hwy 77 exit in Lincoln all the way to Leeds, some 22 miles. A lot of my buddies were late getting in to the DZ. Blue Skies Billy ive jumped there when the race is going on for the past two years. they dont shut pell city down. if you ask they might. otherwise it is buissness as usual. see ya this weekend. im bringin a couple girlies also.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gravityizsexy 0 #27 October 1, 2004 c-ya there... "'Someday is not a day in my week'" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #28 October 1, 2004 ive jumped there when the race is going on for the past two years. they dont shut pell city down. if you ask they might. otherwise it is buissness as usual. reply] They did shut Pell City down a few times before, but it was just for a few hours. I'm speaking from personal experience, since Pell City used to be my home DZ for 7 years. Since they haven't been shut down in the past two years, that's better. Hopefully, the worst that could happen is ATC telling the jump pilot to go around because there's race-related air traffic passing underneath... I don't mind a go-around, it's better than sitting on the ground. Now, that same weekend in 1996 when Mullins' king air was there, on one of the loads I was on, ATC forced Mullins to drop us out 2 miles north of the DZ over a huge cattle ranch, just because of air traffic overflying the DZ. It was a LONG walk back! Blue Skies Billy"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites