Congratulations to our new A&P mechanic, Kelly Keeney, who recently attended and passed Pratt & Whitney’s turbine engine line maintenance school. Since the class was held in Singapore, Kelly got plenty of good culture shock, but no canings were reported. All is well that ends well, Kelly was happy to get back to Hawaii.
Wednesday evening fun jumps are back. These extra opportunities for our staff to make fun jumps was a big hit last year. People could hardly wait for the length of daylight to increase enough. See Blossom at manifest to get all the scoops for each week. We are expecting to also add some presentations and organized discussions about skydiving to the Wednesday night line up.
Skydive Hawaii has asked the State for some safety improvements at Dillingham. After several people got feet caught in the taller grass, we have asked for better and more frequent mowing. Our concern maintaining low or no fences was address since the State appears to be about to begin the perimeter fence replacement project. Up wind ironwood trees have grown over the height of the power lines and need to be trimmed again. The aircraft loading area requires people to walk past spinning propellers and we asked for a simple change.
We had the good fortune of meeting up with Mr. Yuji Masui while he was in Hawaii working on a TV commercial. It seems that the aircraft he had planned to use was down for heavy maintenance, so Skydive Hawaii offered him the use of our Caravan. After several poorly executed skydives, Shaun Dunn, Richard Doppelmayer, Lyle Stewart and Jake Kilfoyle rescued the project from the jaws of certain failure.
May 1st is Lei Day in Hawaii. To skydivers in Hawaii it also means that Summer trade winds will rule the skies. Gone are the gentle showers of Winter and say “Ahoha” to those great trade wind landings. If you’ve been waiting, inspect and repack your gear for your next jump. The Caravan keeps hopping almost all day long and there are generally empty slots.
Holiday Boogies in Hawaii – Party in Paradise 2008. Is it true? We expect to have groups of holiday jumpers from Europe and America camping this Winter from November to March. Our limited camping space, off State property, should keep the numbers around two dozen at one time, but we would like to have every other load full primarily of sport jumpers. Get you group together and send us an email to onlinesupport@skydivehawaii.com
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