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  1. Jeff, thank you for clearing things up. Certainly did not mean to "mislead" anyone. I just posted the information that I gathered because when I asked your staff I could never get a clear answer. I feel much better about the situation that I found myself in at your dropzone. I will contact Jason tomorrow or Friday.
  2. To be fair to the DZ in question, it sounds as if they have a 182 and a 206. If one of those planes is down for any reason, the experienced jumpers won't be jumping beacuse the DZ will be using the one remaining plane to fly the tandems. Tandems are the money makers for the DZ, and if they only have the lift capacity to fly either the tandems or the fun jumpers, the tandems will win every time. There's a good chance that the fun jumpers were waiting until all the tandems had jumped, and were jumping after you left. Fair enough. This is not something I thought of. They did keep the plane going the entire time that I was there with tandems. It's not like the plane sat around. ] Why is it that some people can get out lower than that, but they can't? If they got out do they leave the student in the plane? I supose I should take comfort in the fact that they were willing to go. I did ask and received a sub par answer. Please see my original thread.
  3. They were 2 Cesnas. One held 6 people and one held 4. I should have left. After we jumped we realized that all of the experenced jumpers were not jumping. That should have been our first clue.
  4. Sorry, this was Archway Skydiving. I will look at the Dropzone finder. I appreciate the help.
  5. I did my first tandem yesterday at a local dropzone. This particular dropzone has two planes. The smaller of the two had two issues while we were waiting to jump. The first time they took off and came back down after just a few minutes. The second time they tried to take off but they couldn't. I asked someone what was going on and he said that the engine was having problems. They continued putting people in the plane and sending them up to jump. I later heard someone talk about the plane sputtering at about 1000 feet and it had freaked them out and they were worried about having to bail out of this plane AFTER they already had two issues. About an hour later, the larger plane that they fly the tandems out of had a problem and they wouldn't let it fly any longer. (something about spark plugs) So what do they do, they put the tandems out of the small plane that is also having engine problems. I asked one of the people there if this was safe to ride in. His response was that it was a personal decision that I had to make. I didn't feel informed enough about the situation...just what I had overheard people talking about. So, you, as experienced jumpers, if you only knew what I knew, would you get in the smaller plane and jump? What should I have asked that I didn't think about? I am guessing that we should choose a different dropzone to do our student progression at. Does anyone have a recommendation for Saint Louis residents other than this dropzone? Thank you.