I got an e-mail from Chris Grosch who I stayed with when I went to Johannesburg (Chris is one of the founder members of JSC (Johannesburg Skydiving Club)) just to say hello. Chris pointed out that I had made a posting on my visit to JSC but for some reason it seems to have slipped off the blog - have no idea how - almost certainly pilot error !.
For the record, Jo Berg was one of the places people tried to put me off visiting, but I must honestly say I was shown such kindness while I was there, particularly from Chris and friends and neighbours, at no time did I feel at risk. Clearly you need to take advice from wherever, but you need to make your own mind up and take sensible precautions.
The DZ at JSC is about 60 miles outside of the city. While I was there the weather was great and I got 6 jumps in. The facilities at the club are very good, they have a great canteen, nice bar and all the facilities you would expect from a well run and busy DZ. The plane they had was as PAC turbine. Very fast and got us up to 11'500 feet in about 10 minutes.
The DZ its self is at 5,ooo above sea level which makes it about the third highest DZ in the world.
The land around the DZ is quite flat, its in a Gold Mining region so you can see the mines as you fly up to altitude. Because the air much thinner there I had to be a bit more careful as I came into land as the parachute flies though the air with less resistance. However no problems and had good landings.
I left JSC with very good memories and made some new friends. 9/6
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