DZ Obstacles

[JumperWillis 0]

What obstacles do you have at your DZ and have they ever been a problem for student jumpers?

[steveorino 7]

Almost none. Big open landing area at our DZ. It would appear intential to hit anything besides the hangers.

Well, there was this one girl who landed in the only tree on the DZ about 1/2 mile north of the hanger.

steveOrino

[mnskydiver688 0]

There are sewage lagoons directly to the west of the DZ. Students have to wear flotation devices and we have a little inflatable raft just in case. You have the hangars which seem to attract students, other than that it is all open fields up here in the northland.

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[gearless_chris 1]

I've hit 2 different fences and almost got hit by a car(should've been a fence to stop me). The landing area is huge with no obstacles except the hangar which did get hit by a student(still on the radio).

"If it wasn't easy stupid people couldn't do it", Duane.

My momma said I could be anything I wanted when I grew up, so I became an a$$hole.

[wildWilly 0]

Let's see
building
power wires
fences
camping trailers
trees
drag strip(they have held the IHRA Canadian Nationals )
oval track
motorcross track

This is all within 1/2 mile of landing area
If you can land at my DZ you can land anywhere

Willy

growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.

[DougH 270]

Lots and lots of trees, we should give out arborist numbers for people landing in them.

Small numbers of outs depending on wind directions so you have to make the conclusion that your not getting back rather fast.

A security fence topped with barbed wire.

A down hill field.

Powerlines.

Neighborhoods with power lines.

And a river.

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[stitch 0]

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Let's see
building
power wires
fences
camping trailers
trees
drag strip(they have held the IHRA Canadian Nationals )
oval track
motorcross track

This is all within 1/2 mile of landing area
If you can land at my DZ you can land anywhere

Willy

Obviously, you've never seen ASC's landing area.

"No cookies for you"- GFD
"I don't think I like the sound of that" ~ MB65
Don't be a "Racer Hater"

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

Z-hills has a huge swamp to land in if you get a shitty spot or fly yourself downwind in that direction for too long. Raeford has tremendously tall pine trees to land in if you spot badly or fly yourself into them.

Most EVERY dz has some form of obstacle that has been hit at least once per year.


Chuck

[monkycndo 0]

My local DZs have landing areas that are pretty large and obstruction free, with good outs. One has a pump house that has been landed on. But then just the usual- fences, trees, power lines. But you really have to FUBAR to hit those.

50 donations so far. Give it a try.

You know you want to spank it
Jump an Infinity

[Ironmanjay 0]

LOL to add an unusual one there is a gun shooting range right next to the experienced jumpers landing area, and they're shooting their guns all day long Other then that, power lines, ditches, buildings etc etc

[phoenixlpr 0]

We have VOR antenna and forest around the landing area. I have not seen or heard anyone messing around. I can ask some older jumpers for stories.

[vpozzoli 0]

On airport grounds:

taxiing signs
planes
gliders
helicopters
hangars
trees
antennas
multiple weather stations
fence

Around the airport:

fast running river
highway
trash dump
sewage treatment plant
high tension wires
12000 foot high mountains

Cheers,

Vale

[jbanning 0]

I think we have one of the smallest landing zones in the US, i frequently land on the grass runway, but then I also suck under canopy. I killed a metal windsock pole a few months back and was fortunate to walk away with minor injuries!

[NWFlyer 2]

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I think we have one of the smallest landing zones in the US, i frequently land on the grass runway, but then I also suck under canopy. I killed a metal windsock pole a few months back and was fortunate to walk away with minor injuries!

You're close enough to Deland ... get over there and take Scott Miller's course! I can't recommend it enough.

"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

[3331 137]

West Point Virginia

Trees
River
Swamp

Your briefing consists of "don't land in the water" !

I Jumped with the guys who invented Skydiving.

[DougH 270]

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I think we have one of the smallest landing zones in the US, i frequently land on the grass runway, but then I also suck under canopy. I killed a metal windsock pole a few months back and was fortunate to walk away with minor injuries!

What are you jumping? Is it an appropriate canopy and wing loading for your experience and ability?

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
=P

[Stumpy 284]

There's a dz in the UK where you have to watch out for the lion enclosure!
(at least thats how i remember it, i don't think i am exaggerating!!!)

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[squirrel 0]

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What obstacles do you have at your DZ and have they ever been a problem for student jumpers?

that would be "The Perfect Spot" bar at DeLand...usually a problem for my credit card and waking up the next morning.

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Where is Darwin when you need him?

[Legs 0]

That'll be Headcorn Parachute Club, The bourne free foundation are just down the road and have had lions ect in "roofless" cages. I dont think there are animals there now but it remains in the brief for a bit of fun.

With love in Christ

[FallingDuck 0]

We used to have a barbed wire fence and that did nothing more than scare the students. Now we have to land a little away from the airport so the student situation is a little hard because if any of them land off dz there will be big political problems for the dzo.

[RandomLemming 0]

Sheep... They make look all soft and cuddly, but they're big, solid and not likely to walk out of the way until the last second :)

[toronto_bill 0]

Hey thats gives me an idea.

You ever heard of Fainting Goats? We need the fainting gene to be isolated and incorporated in all livestock so that they get low when someone swoops them....just an idea.

[hexadecimal 0]

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but then I also suck under canopy.

...and according to some other posts I've seen by you, you jump a diablo. Smart.

[AFFI 0]

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but then I also suck under canopy.

...and according to some other posts I've seen by you, you jump a diablo. Smart.

A diablo with:

Jumps : 29
That can't be right...

[stitch 0]

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but then I also suck under canopy.

...and according to some other posts I've seen by you, you jump a diablo. Smart.

A diablo with:

Jumps : 29
That can't be right...

I suppose you've never heard of the Darwin awards

"No cookies for you"- GFD
"I don't think I like the sound of that" ~ MB65
Don't be a "Racer Hater"