Another Successful Safety Day!!! thanks to all that showed up and contributed.. a special thanks Brian and Dennis for the seminars and leadership.
Daylight Savings Time is here and warm weather is close.. so the DZ is open Tuesdays, and most weekends.. what happens when it's too windy to jump?.. what could possibly go wrong?.. (March 21st weekend pictures here)
If anyone has safety day pics they want me to post please let me know and I'll throw them in a gallery for everyone to see..
Here's what is currently going on at QCSC... Besides warm weather
Daylight Savings Time means if it's nice out and you can get 4 people to get the plane in the air.. call Dennis and lets organize some weekday operations.. otherwise Tuesday afternoons is our traditional weekday operating day.
The Florida Trip was Fantastic.. Some photos available at DropzonePhotos.com. Joe P, Brian, RobRoot, Anders, as well as Dave Schwartz of Skydiveradio.com/ all made their first Beech Jump.. congratsulations! Thanks to Skydive Sebastian, Dave, Carrie Schwartz and our own Catrina for being such good Florida Hosts..
The Year Kick off / Pilots Party is currently scheduled for Feb 7th at the Steeplegate Best Western Inn in Davenport iowa
Lastly we have started having very informal winter QCSC organizational meetings on tuesdays.. if you are intrested in attending call me or Dennis.. or just check the member section of the Bulletin Board for details.
ALSO: REMEMBER TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE BULLETIN BOARD FOR GENERAL GOINGS ON...
everything went great.. here's a shot of Rob and his new helmet and camera.. Dennis also broke out the new neon pink Set-366 Tandem canopy... super cool..
The Biggest News is with in a few weeks we will officailly be a two plane Dropzone.. Dennis finalized the deal a week or so ago on a Cessna 205.. holds 5 jumpers.. about the same time for ride to altitude, but now we have 125% more capacity when we need it.. the goal is to have a full time pilot to fly primary and second on call for when we need to pull a second plane out.. Now if we have a busy weekend of tandems or AFF's, one plane can be dedicated for students and you (as jumpers) can still organize 4 or 5 way experianced loads with the second plane.. no photo to share but I'll post more info as it bocomes available.
also, if you haven't already check out the bulletin board to keep current on whats happening at QCSC...
Hey Dennis Well last Thursday was the start of year two here at USAFA. Thebest part of this school year is that I have my AF Jump Wings and I love it. I got my wings pinned on a week ago and yes I even got blood wings (My wings were punched into my chest. It didn't hurt till the next day). Overall I found the entire jump program here to be...wellfun... but overkill. With three days of ground school from 6 - 6 everyone of those days I not only was bored out of mind at times but found myself wanting to tell my instructor...ok can we just jump now. Lucky for me I got selected to jump on the first plane load on the first jump day. I was the last one out of the plane and got to laugh at all the kids getting out in front of me trying to swim back into the plane and do the running man while falling. It as a great jump and felt awesome to jump out of and airplane again (isn't it sad that a person who wants to fly airplanes also loves to jump out of them.) After two days of jumping I got my wings. I received two jumps day one and then three in a row on the next day which made me happy...drop your rig grab another and stand in line. Overall I received Q1 on all 5 of myjumps with no retraining, and an overall perfect on my grade card. The only downside of the entire summer came last Saturday when we signed up for Wings of Green. I fit every requirement but one...you had to have a 2.6 min GPA...well...with my luck I have a 2.59... (No joke).In the end because of .01 I am not on wings of green which my instructor and jumpmaster said I would had made with no problem. SOOOOO..... all this means is I do not get to spend every weekend jumping out of airplanes here at USAFA and will just have to receive all my thrills and fun with the great people at QC Skydiving. In conclusion as the rain falls for the 7 straight day I want to again thank you for the 10 best times of my life you allowed me to have at ho> me. I owe you for every Q1 jump I did here at USAFA and to show you my thanks within the next week or two you should be receiving my original jump wings. AF tradition states that you jump with your wings on your last jump... then wear them for every minute of 24 hours after that jump and then have them punched into your chest. After all of this they are not to be worn again and giving to someone to keep. So my clear cut decision was you and all of the people at QC Skydiving. Again I want to thank you and cannot wait to jump with everyone again when I am home. C3C Eric Darwin USAFA Class of 2010 CS-18 Nightriders USAF Academy
closed 10 am July 4, 2009 (10:00 am - 9:00 pm) (NEW) We will be closed after 10 am see Bettendorf Demo.
Bettendorf Demoe July 4, 2009 (10:00 am - 9:00 pm) (Demo Jump) We will be closed after 10 am to do multiple jumps from noon-9pm for the Bettendorf 4th of July celebration come join us.
