Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!eng.ufl.edu!gnarley.eng.ufl.edu!esj From: esj@gnarley.eng.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) Newsgroups: rec.skydiving Subject: Re: AFF training Message-ID: <1991Apr15.204632.7020@eng.ufl.edu> Date: 15 Apr 91 20:46:32 GMT References: Sender: news@eng.ufl.edu Reply-To: esj@gnarley.eng.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) Organization: U of Florida Engineering Comuputing Services Lines: 22 In article bb1v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Barry Lowell Brumitt) writes: > >I think dropzones are losing a potentially big section of the market >without thetraditional S/L training. (Particularly those with less $$, >such as students) > >From talking to peope about skydiving, it seems that they would be far more >willing to do the many jumps required of S/L at cheaper prices, (spread >more out over time) than to cough up the ~$1000 to go through AFF. > This is true. While S/L, AFF, and Tandam were all offered at my DZ, I chose S/L simply because after every jump as a student, I felt I had the $25 bucks worth of fun. No matter how badly I mucked up the dive, no matter how few of the objectives I actually met. I have seen people spend literally thousands of dollars (and bunches of repeat dives) doing AFF training. Ej A-12472 ( USPA finally got around to sending me my number ;-/ )