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.
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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.