Weather forecast said one thing, weather did another. Too windy for student jumps.
3 of us got some packing training. Larry - think it's his first time through. Austin - working on A license, needs one more clean pack job to get the OK to jump it. Assisted by Colton.
My troubles were flaking the right side and then getting the canopy in a controlled enough condition to be able to get it in the bag.
Attended Safety Day at Maytown. Started with a briefing by Dave Grabowski (probably have that name wrong but I'm too lazy to go look it up), the USPA Eastern Region Director. Follow up briefings by MSPC members on gear checks, aircraft safety, camera flying, angle flying, malfunctions (not in that order). Winds were pretty strong and gusty, so definitely no student jumping, maybe no jumping at all.
Talked to John (no way I'm getting this right) Stepancik(?) who was my IAD classroom instructor last week. High points - MSPC has a couple of 260 sq ft student rigs and one 210 sq ft student rig. The 210 is in high demand. When I come back to jump, short meeting in the classroom to go over emergency procedures and the dive flow again. He knows I learned flat packing. Apparently these days everybody does pro packing. I should at least watch a video on that.
Talked to Allie, who introduced herself as a packer and gave the gear check presentation. Wanted to know about the logistics of getting pack jobs and paying for them. MSPC doesn't have packers, so I'm going to have to get up to speed on packing quickly. We had a nice chat about how she ended up here (Florida to Univ of Chicago for Marketing, which is no fun anymore because of AI, Chicago to Florida, learned to jump there, followed her instructor to the Northeast and now jumps at MSPC, but will be going to grad school in Nursing at Columbia).
No jumping, but very good trip to Maytown.
