Post the 1st Page of your Logbook . . .

[cutaway1 3]

Here is mine from Taft and Arvin in the really good old days, I was put out by the colorful Don Molitar D95, and was fortunate to be led along by the Arvin Good Guys.

never let wishes take the place of deeds

SCR-21

[Usetawuz 1]

AWESOME 1st page!!!!

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The older I get, the better I was!

[longtall 0]

Heres mine.....................................J..................

" 90 right, five miles then cut."---Pukin Buzzards

[JerryBaumchen 1,364]

Hi Nick,

Here's mine ( this is a recreation because one Saturday night coming out of tavern the original ended up in a nasty mudpuddle; I had to sit down with the 'DZO' Jens and re-do it ):

JerryBaumchen

[peckerhead 0]

Can we see the other side Jerry?

[JerryBaumchen 1,364]

Hi peckerhead,

You ask a lot. Being the complete computer guru that I am I have to have my daughter do all of this stuff for me.

Maybe in a month or so when I can get her to help.

JerryBaumchen

PS) The interesting part is, if you look, that after 3 months and being on the dz at least one day of every weekend for those 3 months I had the grand sum of 4 jumps. Times have changed.

[Krip 2]

Hi Jerry

So that your secrete a daughter (who probably subs it out to her daughter)

I was wondering how all these older gentlemen knew how to do this techno wizzo computer stuff.

I Gotta go find a rent a kid center. Or a sweet young thing to hook up with. On second thought I'll stick with the rent a kid center idea.

[peckerhead 0]

Only people that had the shit together jumped the tu

The TU was a Hot canopy...

[darkwing 5]

All of my first ten were at Jump West Parachute Center at Star, Idaho, out of the C-180. The DZ was owned by the infamous Wally Benton (deceased). Signatures from Wallee Lange and Jack Shrum, current whereabouts/status unknown. Joe Taylor, a pilot, also infamous, and deceased. "Bullit" Bob Denton, still an active skydiver, still marginally competent.

The 7TU was pretty hot for me. They recommended against the even hotter 5TU. My progress as a student was unspectacular.

-- Jeff
My Skydiving History

[stratostar 5]

Ok, well you might notice I blacked out some location and name. Some of the old farts are still alive and we don't want anyone getting pissed off after all these years.

See I got one of those old SSE blue books, I picked up a blank one, one day in the gear shead in CO and stuck it in my back pocket and took it home @ age 15 3/4 or so.

I had been showing how to do everything for years and knew an FJC from start to jump, well I didn't think my mom would sign the waver @ 16 or give me the 45 or 75 bucks, whatever it was for the FJC.

I filled out the page and made it look like I had done 5 jumps in one day @ a DZ I could have done so @ and then had a friend at my high school sign a living persons name and his dead brothers D # to the page and then I forged my mom's name on the age waver and had an office girl use the office ladys notary stamp on it.

So I show up @ the dz after a "visit home" with a back dated logbook and they had me hang in the harness and show um my EP's. Didn't take long really and next thing ya know I'm making my first real jump as a DRCP on a T-10 (my one and only till years later, and now we jump one for fun[crazy)

So I never paid and took a FJC as a student and my first jump was a DRCP, smooth as silk, got it too and waved it @ my JM and it only cost me was like 12 bucks or somthing crazy like that.

After my first cutaway I moved up to the big boy books.

you can't pay for kids schoolin' with love of skydiving! ~ Airtwardo

[pchapman 279]

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I filled out the page and made it look like I had done 5 jumps in one day @ a DZ I could have done so

Maybe there's an interesting story there for another thread, about how Stratostar's whole student progression went!

The fake 5 jumps he wrote up seem reasonably well crafted although not without minor suspicious aspects. He did give himself some bad jumps. (E.g., going "Z" on jump one, assuming it was OK in those days to use that term even for static line?). But who puts "5 sec" for static line jumps? Anyway, sounds like it all worked in the end.

[jimmytavino 16]

rather plain and undetailed...

but here it is

started with a blue paper back...i liked it because it had all the license
requirements in it, and freefall tables

then switched to a red one and re entered the jumps... of my first 100, 96 were out of a cessna,,, 180's 182's and a C 210....
the other 4 were from a Bell UH 1, Huey,,, at an accuracy meet, near west point Ny...May of '73

i started at a static line, cheapo canopy DZ with LOTS of members and new students, sooo we seldom went above 5,500 feet...
( equates to more loads a day)
But i did go to 12,500 on Jump # 61.. That was the HIGHLight of my year...
By 100 jumps, i had 21 minutes in freefall
and crossed 1 hour in FF on Jump # 279

Did a good amount of jumpmastering in those days. so not much RW,,, LOTS of accuracy,,,( French Papillon.. 4 or 5 of us, had them,,,)
built my first 4 way on Jump # 300 hahahahaha.......
it was Memorial Day '75...and 4 months from coming up on 3 years of jumping. I had just graduated from college and i had one hour and 6 minutes in freefall!!!!!!....I had the world by the balls....!!!!

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( still do ) ...
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ps hit 2 hours FF on jump # 442... and it took until 584 to reach 3 hrs....
no wonder i couldn't fly worth a damn !!!!

pps ( i'm better, now )

j t

[jbrasher 1]

OK, Nick, here you go :-)

The really interesting ones are from here on to 48 when I was pretty much thrown off student status.

Red, White and Blue Skies,

John T. Brasher D-5166

[jbrasher 1]

Well :-( this is a continuation of student status...
I'll figure out how to make my scan smaller so I can updalod it.

Just like real life, I'm too big now.

Red, White and Blue Skies,

John T. Brasher D-5166

[drjump 0]

And here is mine, from a long time ago.

[howardwhite 6]

Doc
I suspect a lot of people won't be able to deal with a .pdd file; in an age of Javelins and Mirages, it's sort of the Wonderhog of photo formats.
Those who can open it will perhaps wonder what kind of plane a "Cessna 181" is.
(I know, of course, having made many jumps out of the same one.)

HW

[drjump 0]

That would be a great photo for "What is this Plane".
I guess my computer program is a old as my log book!

[WGore 0]

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Here's mine!

Who can tell me who signed mine?

My jumpmaster on my 1st jump didn't sign mine. He was only 13 at the time and had to go do school work when I needed a signature.

Come to think of it, he didn't have a license so I suppose its a mute point.

David, (Butch) Marvin Krebs was the first signature. He used to live down around Richmond KY last I heard. Haven't seen him in 15 years or so. At one time he , Dave Ellis, and Bob Peirson owned the 182 that flew out of Rising Sun IN. Eventually ended up on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
The 2nd signature was J. C. Pugh who used to be the rigger for GC back then.
And of course the 3rd is Jim West.
I assume the 13 year old would have been George Loudikas.

GUNFIRE, The sound of Freedom!

[debonair 0]

Here is my page from 1983 at Issaquah Parachute Center, WA (now a shopping mall location).

My FJC instructor was actually Bill Jeswine. I slipped on the step climbing out and because of the weight of the gear I couldn't stand back up on the step. I was half on and half off but holding on for life. Bill grabbed my rig and drug me back inside for a go-around. On the second pass I let go with my arms but didn't kick off so the first jump photo has me "lying" on my back, feet up in the air, my eyes closed, my arms outstretched and the pilot chute coming up behind me.

What fun to remember where we came from!

AZChallenger JFTC99/02 GOFAST300 STILLUV4WAY
"It's nothing 1000 jumps won't cure..."
- Jeff Gorlick, Seattle Sky Divers

[airtime1 2]

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All of my first ten were at Jump West Parachute Center at Star, Idaho, out of the C-180. The DZ was owned by the infamous Wally Benton (deceased). Signatures from Wallee Lange and Jack Shrum, current whereabouts/status unknown. Joe Taylor, a pilot, also infamous, and deceased. "Bullit" Bob Denton, still an active skydiver, still marginally competent.

The 7TU was pretty hot for me. They recommended against the even hotter 5TU. My progress as a student was unspectacular.

And 7 years later it's called Star Valley in Star Idaho, 1980

Forgot about Pat Arthur JM on my second jump, that could explain alot. Other JMs include Ron Gulley and "Bullet" Bob Denton.

Cleared for FF on jump #4, didn't happen do to another student protesting.

Jump #18 signed by Darkwing, aka Jeff Wragg

Jump #36 7/12/81 stamped by Roch Charmet - his 8702 jump. Anyone remember Roch, the garlic breath frenchman? Sure was a fancy rig he used on his 10,000 jump.

RobH

[Bones 0]

Seems like old times. My FJC instructor/jumpmaster was also "Wild" Bill Jeswine, Sept, 1978 down in Sheridan, OR. This was right before he and "Sonny" Roy Stolsig and their respective SO's headed up to Issaquah. I'd post my 1st page here but I just broke down my computer for a move.

[goldwing 0]

Also from a long time ago. Was a Navy Rigger at NAS Kingsville, TX at the time. LT. John Painter, my first J/M crashed after take off from the USS Oriskany in 1971 and was declared MIA along with the other four crew members. He was aboard the Oriskany a year after I was.

My first jump was a freefall at Navy Rigger School NAS Lakehurst, NJ February 1967.

Yeah, I had a helluva time at first.

You haven't lived until you've almost died"