rlucus 0 #26 July 7, 2009 Quote Wow, hadn't looked at the license #s in a while...I'm feeling kinda old now with my number of D-14847. But I'm only 38, that's not old I hope. My DZO is D-597 Buddy Blue. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydived19006 4 #27 July 7, 2009 I looked on the USPA Membership Database, and found Krisanne at D29960, and the last number assigned as of right now being D29962. The A number is now up to A55,753, so over 36,000 A licenses have been issued since I got mine (A19518) circa 1994. Where did they all go? MartinExperience is what you get when you thought you were going to get something else. AC DZ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BartRN 0 #28 July 7, 2009 I am content with my number, D29888..... easy to remember heheSome canopies can be fun to fly, but treat you like their bitch on opening. -- Jarno Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BikerBabe 0 #29 July 7, 2009 hehe, i get comments about my "low" D number when i sign logbooks, etc. D-18644 it's not THAT low, but anything under 20000 now seems to be more rare than not. I'm 34, but i've been jumping for 15 years...Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daremrc 0 #30 July 17, 2009 anybody get it yet? If it's not gone yet, it has to be close...Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kimemerson 7 #31 July 17, 2009 License #'s are fun but not accurate as to when someone became a skydiver. I have friend who went over 1,000 jumps without any license until she decided she wanted to compete at Nationals. So there were people with 200 jumps, in the sport upwards of ten years less than she was at the time, and they have lower D license #'s. Now, USPA membership #'s are a whole other matter. We all get them as soon as we join and that tells the story. Kim D-13439 USPA 68753 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markovwgti 0 #32 July 17, 2009 just sent in for mine tuesday....havent gotten anything yet...how can i find out what number i am? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #33 July 17, 2009 Quotejust sent in for mine tuesday....havent gotten anything yet...how can i find out what number i am? My card came in less than a week (I did fax my application in - it might take longer if you mailed it). You should know soon. You could ask a group member to look you up but if it hasn't been processed yet you won't be in the system."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kimemerson 7 #34 July 17, 2009 It's right there on your membership card. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
markovwgti 0 #35 July 17, 2009 it got faxed in on tuesday....i just called USPA and thy said it hasnt ben processed yet! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pilotdave 0 #36 July 17, 2009 Howard White got his D last year with 8000+ jumps and 78 years in the sport (that's an approximation). Bout time. Dave Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #37 July 17, 2009 Quote it got faxed in on tuesday....i just called USPA and thy said it hasnt ben processed yet! Quit bugging them and maybe they'll have time to get to it. I should add that less than a week is pretty fast for USPA - I was surprised - I expected 2-3 weeks."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,436 #38 July 18, 2009 Hi kim, Quote Now, USPA membership #'s are a whole other matter. D-1543 USPA 357 Sorry, I couldn't resist. JerryBaumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kimemerson 7 #39 July 18, 2009 no apology needed. Let's see more USPA #'s. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
k-dubjumps 0 #40 July 18, 2009 USPA 78600Adrenaline is my crack DPH #3 D.S. #16 FAG #12 Muff Brother #4406 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
377 22 #41 July 18, 2009 QuoteHi Kris, Since you asked: 1. I was and am opposed to G. H. W. Bush getting #20000. He did not earn it. 2. All numbers should merely go to whomever comes up at that time. Just my thoughts, JerryBaumchen (a 4-digit D ) Agree 101%. Specially bout Bush. Pretty cool that he jumps, but D anything? Sheesh. Might as well give him an ATP and 747 type rating too. 3772018 marks half a century as a skydiver. Trained by the late Perry Stevens D-51 in 1968. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kimemerson 7 #42 July 18, 2009 I just had my 20th anniversary in the sport. You've been jumping 18. There are 9,847 membership #'s between us, or roughly 5,000 new members a year. Jerry started 40 years ago. There are 68,396 numbers between us, or roughly 3,420 new members a year in the twenty years between Jerry & me. I've always considered membership numbers the better indicator of time in the sport. Licenses are limiting in describing anything beyond the fact that we have met certain minimums. A well funded first year in the sport will get you a D license but you can opt out of getting any license at all. A former student of mine from about 15 years ago still only has an A license because he can't swim and is afraid of the water so he never completed his water training for a B license, has never done a night jump and will never compete at Nationals but can skydive circles around a lot of us. So what's his A license say about him? That he's a novice? Hardly. So when it comes to bragging rights and some young tyro comes along and shows off his D license, that D can be trumped by the A license holder's USPA membership #. Also, my D license makes the absurd claim that I am a "Master". Yeah? Says who? I got it with 200 jumps which, at the time, I considered a huge accomplishment - which in its way, it is - but now with nearly 4,000 jumps those first 200 seem so much like baby's first steps compared with a marathoner's. My .02 cents re: Bush's #. No way should he have been given that. It was owed to a real skydiver who accomplished the tasks required to deserve it. It's a slap in the face to just hand it out to an octogenarian ex-pres merely because he was an ex-pres. A tandem and, what, one AFF? Remember when the Beatles got their OMBs or whatever it was and other recipients of the OMB gave theirs back as protest? Too bad their isn't some equal form of protest for us, but I sure as hell hope any license USPA bestows on anyone is given because it was well deserved. What's Bush's USPA membership #? Did he get one? Did he even join and pay up? Or was he given a pass on that too? And why didn't USPA ask members about this first? Did they assume we'd just agree? Maybe the majority of us would, who knows? But from what I've heard and read it doesn't seem likely. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slotperfect 7 #43 July 18, 2009 Quote Howard White got his D last year with 8000+ jumps and 78 years in the sport (that's an approximation). Bout time. I almost spit milk and cereal all over my keyboard! Arrive Safely John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NWFlyer 2 #44 July 18, 2009 I'm USPA 196755 - got the number in Sept 04."There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimmytavino 16 #45 July 18, 2009 to answer your request USPA number according to my current card is 9452 # 1 SL sept 16th '72 First freefall early october '72 i earned A License # 3914 around '74. That could be when i finally joined USPA...( it wasn't required at dz's then, like it is now,,,) The motivation was so that i could enter the College nationals, which were held in DeLand, november of '74. ( first time ever, to FLA) I had all the jump numbers and acccuracy shots, and other requirements for the rest of the licenses, and even passed all the written tests,,, but I was Lacking,,,,"60 second delays".. Back then you needed some of those maybe 8 or ten, i forget.. and where i was jumping, we NEVER went above 10,500. hahaha. I had night jumps and water jumps etc etc and about 400 jumps, by '75...at the time when a D Lic only needed 200 jumps..( hit a grand in the fall of 1979 ) BUT it wasn't until the mid eighties that i finally put in for the D. Took the test again, passed it, got signed off and received D 12122... always felt that i screwed up, by not getting a 4 digit D #.... but "que sera sera " earned the B and c as well, at the same time as the D but i don't know those number by heart. And while Mike Mullins does point out the 'positive press' which the sport received via G H W Bush.. the awarding of a significant D Lic Number to him,, for having basically "joined the elite of the Golden Knights" in a few exits, descents and landings,,, does NOt elevate him to a status which commands such an important license #... i'm kinda old school and am more impressed with things that are earned, rather than bestowed... (ps never understood college " honorary degrees" either.. what a slap in the face to all the OTHER grads, who just knocked themselves out, and bled their parents piggy banks DRY... to complete an education,, And then to have to sit there and watch someone to stroll in and be "ordained like that" )... what a system...!!! but That's a complete other thread!!!!! back to membership #'s..... jimmytavino rochester Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyangel2 2 #46 July 19, 2009 Quote hehe, i get comments about my "low" D number when i sign logbooks, etc. D-18644 it's not THAT low, but anything under 20000 now seems to be more rare than not. I'm 34, but i've been jumping for 15 years... D 9944 USPA 23008 It's my 29th year as a USPA member And NO, I'm not telling you how old I am.May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JSBIRD 1 #47 July 19, 2009 Quoteno apology needed. Let's see more USPA #'s. D9968 USPA 2825 Yeah, I waited a long time to get a D Lic. BASE359"Now I've settled down, in a quiet little town, and forgot about everything" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 4 #48 July 19, 2009 USPA# 3620 D-5476 SparkyMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #49 July 19, 2009 You sure? USPA 153839---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rlucus 0 #50 July 20, 2009 My member number 221605 from March 2008 I only have a C number I don't know my DZO'z member number but his license is Buddy Blue - D# 597 And according to him the only reason it was that high is because it had to travel further in the mail than other people's paperwork did being on the west coast at the time. Edit to add: And I did 2 jumps with him yesterday. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
