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The instructor that I requested was on the same jump as I was with another person out of our group.

Wow I didn't expect everyone to bitch at me for my post. To clear things up, I did enjoy the day at the DZ. It was fun hanging out with everyone (we did have a group of 11 with us). I just thought that someone would have tried to honor our requests since that is one of the questions that we asked when we made the appointment and we were assured that everything possible would be done. The thing that got me was that the names that we quoted were never even noted. To whoever asked; no I haven't been around to many DZ's I live 2 hours away from the closest one and I have a job that requires me to work 12 hour night shifts (and lots of weekends). It isn't like I can just get up on Saturday morning and decide to go hang out. I was just wondering if this was what to expect at other DZs, if so skydiving isn't for me. I will find something to do with my time and money that someone will atleast try to make an effort to make me comfortable and accept me into their "group". I guarantee that if you knew the DZ most of you would change your tune and tell me that none of your DZs were anything like this one.

I made my second tantem on Saturday and it sucked. My first tantem was in March and I thought I was hooked. But Saturday may have ended all of that. The problems started when we showed up at 9:30 am and the weather wasn't cooperating. We were assured that the clouds would lift soon and we could jump. (It was either pay for the jump now that we were here or lose our deposit.) 4 people out of our group of 11 had made the jump in March. Out of us 4, 2 of us requested our original tantem masters. We were told that they would do what the could, but couldn't promise anything. (No names were noted anywhere when we asked and neither of our requests were granted.) After about 4 hours of trying to wait out the weather a few of the group decided they were ready to make the 2 hour drive home. When they asked for a refund they were promptly told that wasn't possible, they could only issue a raincheck. When they finally cooperated (at about 5 o'clock) our group was told that we probably wouldn't make it before they quit jumping for the evening so we should take our rainchecks. We all agreed that we had stuck it out all day and would be there until the plane quit flying. With 9 of our group remaining they still split us up onto 3 different jumps and told 1 of our group that he wouldn't be able to jump. (They had many different reasons, but he did get to jump the sunset load and loved it.) On to my jump. I jumped with a new tantem master. I did tell him that I had a previous tantem jump and was considering taking the AFF course. So with my enthusiasm I was allowed to deploy the chute and NOTHING else on the entire jump. There was no chit chat on the plane ride up. My instructions were to pull when I received the signal and that was it. It SUCKED! Overall this experience sucked. I was tired, bored and ended up scared more this time than the time before. I am not at the point that I could care less if I ever jumped from a plane again. Ok. I have ranted enough. I just wondered if this was anywhere near normal practice. Do any dz's give refunds? Are requests for specific instructor's taken seriously? If I do decide to jump again it will be at a different DZ. I feel a little better now that I got that off of my chest!!

I have 7 at the moment and I love them!!!

I am a respiratory therapist at a children's hospital so yes I have heard of RSV. What would you like to know about it? It is probably the most common cause of the 'common cold', but most adults are never tested for it.