Black and Gold meet this year..?

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Well the command is going to send me to ensure the 101st canopies will fly for the first time during this meet.

Of course I will be solo (other team mate is being reassigned by the Army) so I will be the guy looking for a slot to fill in 4-way RW and 8-way Speed.

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I may check out the meet this year. I plan on camping on site if that is allowed. I remember someone saying that the Laurinburg airport was fairly sparse. Are other amenities such as shower and toilet facilities available, or should I expect to rough it for a few days?

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Yea is there at least enough room to camp there if not where can people go?.....


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I may check out the meet this year. I plan on camping on site if that is allowed. I remember someone saying that the Laurinburg airport was fairly sparse. Are other amenities such as shower and toilet facilities available, or should I expect to rough it for a few days?

Expect to rough it.

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Hello --

I went to the Black & Gold last year and had a great time. It was well worth my trip from Idaho and the Golden Knights put on a first-class show. To help answer some of the questions that people have been asking:

Golden Knights Website

This is the Golden Knight's website. You'll need to click on the "5th Annual Black & Gold Inter-service Parachute Competition" link that is on the right-side of the webpage. When the next page comes up, there are 4 more links with more info like Schedule of Events, etc.

I'm unsure if camping is allowed, but if so, it would be full-on roughing it. The Knights lock up their facility at the end of the day, so you would be without any running water or toilets once things shut down. There are no showers on-site either, so be prepared for that as well. Your best bet is to call the Knights and find out if you can even camp on-site before considering this option.

Hotels in the area (10 minutes form the airport) are dirt-cheap. It is easy to negotiate 2 queen beds for $29.99 a night from places like Days Inn, etc.

You cannot be on leave for this event. I'm in the Air Force and it was easy to get Permissive TDY (other services may vary).

Last year, there were vendors out there on Saturday and Sunday (the 2 busiest days of the 4-day event). Vendors included an assortment of skydiving equipment manufacturers, including the PD canopy demo program. There were also some food vendors but if I recall correctly, the food folks weren't out there on Friday and Monday, so you may want to bring out your own food on those days.

As I said before, it was a great event and the Knights really went out of their way to help folks in any way they could. My hats off to them for taking time off from their training to provide an event like this for military members.

I hope this helps,

Bryan