gypcees 0 #1 January 22, 2006 It could be summed up to say, make sure that any & all information that you receive regarding learning how to skydive is discussed with & validated with your instructor as it can either be correct, in-between or incorrect & affect wether you live or not. Legal matters, it would be useful to add this or something similiar to the signing docs that they have been told this. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AFFI 0 #2 January 22, 2006 That goes for the advice they get from sport jumpers in the parking lot or at the fire, or what they saw in movies like Point Break or Cutaway, or even what they personally think is a good idea and hell – I know some individuals who have solo freefall instructional ratings that I would not trust to give my dead grand mother skydiving lessons to. IMHO, it is very much part of my responsibility to ensure that a student I am working with is properly trained and prepared before I take tem up in the air. If I get someone I have never worked with before and they have a handful of solos already but I notice that they have not been properly trained or have some bad ideas in their head if it takes me 2 hours to retrain that person than so be it, it is a responsibility I recognized from the beginning that I carry to this day. All I work with are cautioned by me to be careful when they alterations in the safe foundation of practices they learn in our program. That being said – I have read a LOT of good information on this website as well as things I dont know about. There are a lot of instructors and sport jumpers in these forums Ii have never met but deeply respect their expertise and opinions were skydiving is concernedMykel AFF-I10 Skydiving Priorities: 1) Open Canopy. 2) Land Safely. 3) Don’t hurt anyone. 4) Repeat… Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelpdiver 2 #3 January 23, 2006 did you miss Bill's sticky? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Erroll 80 #4 January 23, 2006 Quotedid you miss Bill's sticky? Ahem.... you may want to rephrase that.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
