Skydive Vancouver

Skydive Vancouver is on the outskirts of Abbotsford and only about 20 minutes from where I am staying. Its situated in a low lying plane and the immediate area around is nice and flat. I went there to jump on Monday 1st Sept.. The facilities here are good with a large carpeted area in the hanger for packing, The landing area is quite large and there is a experienced and student landing area, they have a nice lounge type area for visitors and jumpers to relax in. They have quite a number of Aircraft, the biggest is a rather funky Porter in camouflage colouring, a C206, C182 , C180 and a C170. When I got there the cloud base was a bit low but looked as though it would clear. There is a nice relaxed feel about the DZ and everyone was quite happy to chat with me. Someone came looking for me, which was nice, to see if I was interested in a cloud base jump as it looked like we would get about 3.5k. So very quickly got kitted up, got into 206 and in no time at all was over the DZ and out of the plane, we got just over 3k. Nice no pressure jump and got my eye in for the DZ. Not long after that the weather cleared and I went up again, this time it was on a 4 way to 10.5k in a very quick C180. Thoroughly enjoyed the jump, we got a few points in. The lady who's house I am staying in had come down to see me jump, so I had a bit of an audience.

As I paid for my jumps at the end of the day, Debbie (another Debbie) who runs the manifest and one of the instructors only charged me for the low jump which was there contribution to my cause - thank you.

Really this was quite a momentous day on my trip. It is the very last DZ on my journey, no 22 to be exact. I plan to do some more jumps here before I leave. As usual I have attached some photographs. john 3/9