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Which DZ`s in your state accept Skyride?

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Wisconsin:

Sky Knights SPC, East Troy - NO Skyride!!!
Skydive Midwest, Sturtavant - Accepts Certificates
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Alabama
Skydive Alabama, Cullman - NO!
Opelika Skydiving Association – NO!
Emerald Coast Skydiving – Unknown (Someone please verify)
Alabama Skydiving Center, Prattville - Accepts Skyride (Owned by same people that own Skyride)

Arizona
Skydive Arizona , Eloy - NO

California
Skydive Santa Barbara, Lompoc - NO!
Bay Area Skydiving, Byron - Accepts Skyride
Perris Valley Skydiving, Perris - Accepts Skyride
Skydive Elsinore, Lake Elsinore - Accepts Skyride
Adventure Center Skydiving, Hollister - Accepts Skyride
Skydive San Diego, San Diego, Accepts Skyride
Skydive Taft, Taft, Accepts Skyride

Connecticut
Connecticut Parachutists, Ellington- NO
FunSkydiving, Danielson - NO
No Dropzone in Connecticut accepts Skyride

Delaware
Skydive Delmarva, Laurel - NO
No Dropzone in Delaware accepts Skyride

FLORIDA
School of Human Flight, Quincy: NO!
Skydive City, Zephyrhills, NO!
Skydive Jacksonville, Jacksonville - Accepts Skyride.
Skydive Space Center, Titusville - Accepts Skyride
Skydive Tampa Bay, Mulberry - Accepts Skyride
Florida Skydiving Center, Lake Wales - Accepts Skyride

Georgia
Skydive Atlanta, Thomaston, NO!
Skydive the Farm, Rockmart, NO!
Atlanta Skydiving Center, Cedartown, Accepts Skyride! (Owned by the same people that own Skyride)

Illinois
Skydive Chicago, Ottawa, NO!

Indiana
Skydive Wayne County, Richmond, Accepts Skyride
Skydive Greensburg, Greensburg - Accepts Skyride.

Iowa
Skydive Iowa, Brooklyn, NO!

Kansas
Air Capital Drop Zone, Witchita, NO!
Skydive K-State, Wamego, NO!
Skydive Kansas, Osage City, NO!

Michigan
Skydive Tecumseh, Tecumseh, NO!

Missouri
The St. Louis Skydiving Center, Bowling Green - NO!
The Kansas City Skydiving Center, Dearbon - NO!
Missouri River Valley Skydiving, Lexington - Accepts Skyride
Skydive Rolla, Rolla - Accepts Skyride
Freefall Express Skydiving, Missouri Nixa - Accepts Skyride

Nebraska
Lincoln Sport Parachute Club, Weeping Water, NO!
Crete Skydiving Center, Crete – NO!

Ohio
Skydive Greene County, Xenia - NO!
Aerohio, Marshallville - NO!
Canton Air Sports, Alliance - Accepts Skyride

South Carolina
Skydive Carolina, Chester - NO!
Skydive Walterboro, Walterboro - Accepts Skyride

Tennessee
Skydive Smoky Mountains, Morristown, NO!
West Tennessee Skydiving, NO!
Skydive Nashville, Tullahoma, NO!
Skydive Paris, Paris, NO!
No Dropzone in Tennessee accepts Skyride

Texas
Skydive Dallas, Whitewright, Accepts Skyride.
Skydive Spaceland, Rosharon, Accepts Skyride.

Utah
Skydive Utah, Erda –NO!
Skydive Ogden, Ogden – NO!
Skydive Moab, Moab – NO!
Zion Skydive, Hurricane –NO!
Cedar Valley Skydiving- NO! (Used to, but say they no longer do)

Virginia
Skydive Suffolk, Suffolk, NO!
Skydive the Point, West Point, NO!
Skydive Orange, Orange, NO!
No Dropzone in Virginia accepts Skyride

Washington
Skydive Kapowsin, Shelton - NO!
West Plains Skydiving, West Spokane - NO!
Blue Skies, Bremerton - NO!
Skydive Toledo, Toledo - Accepts skyride

Wisconsin
Skydive Wissota, Chippewa Falls – NO!
Skydive Twin Cities Baldwin – NO!
Sky Knights SPC, East Troy – NO!
Skydive Superior, Suprerior – Accepts Skyride
Skydive Midwest, Sturtavant - Accepts Skyride

Please keep the VERIFIED Information coming.
Also Please notify me if you see any incorrect information on this list.
I will update the list again early next week.

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yes skydive dallas does take them, the "manager" there is very proud to take them. interesting because the owner Lee S. is on the USPA board.

the DZ there in dallas has been going down hill for the last few years and is only fitting that they resort to doing business with that lot.
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yes skydive dallas does take them, the "manager" there is very proud to take them. interesting because the owner Lee S. is on the USPA board.

the DZ there in dallas has been going down hill for the last few years and is only fitting that they resort to doing business with that lot.



Jay (note the correct spelling of your name)

This statement is correct in regards to Skyride, Dallas does take it. I remember that now, you may add them to your list.
Thanks Airgump


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That's a great idea Jay. I think I know a shirt guy that willl print them. :D



There is a dz in texas that i was planning on spending a load of money before the game on jumping. Fuck that, i am not supporting no skyride affiliation. So, what dz's in Texas do not support skyride so we can plan accordingly
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California

Bay Area Skydiving, Byron - Accepts Skyride
Perris Valley Skydiving, Perris - Accepts Skyride
Skydive Elsinore, Lake Elsinore - Accepts Skyride
Adventure Center Skydiving, Hollister - Accepts Skyride
Skydive San Diego, San Diego, Accepts Skyride
Skydive Taft, Taft, Accepts Skyride



What's up with all of these California DZ's who take Skyride?
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California

Bay Area Skydiving, Byron - Accepts Skyride
Perris Valley Skydiving, Perris - Accepts Skyride
Skydive Elsinore, Lake Elsinore - Accepts Skyride
Adventure Center Skydiving, Hollister - Accepts Skyride
Skydive San Diego, San Diego, Accepts Skyride
Skydive Taft, Taft, Accepts Skyride



What's up with all of these California DZ's who take Skyride?


Pure speculation here but I would guess once one DZ starts taking them in an Area (yes, I know California is a HUGE Area but basically it breaks down to Nor-cal (SF and the bay area) and So-Cal (LA and San Diego Area), The others start thinking if they dont they will loose business.

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That's a great idea Jay. I think I know a shirt guy that willl print them. :D



There is a dz in texas that i was planning on spending a load of money before the game on jumping. Fuck that, i am not supporting no skyride affiliation. So, what dz's in Texas do not support skyride so we can plan accordingly



Hey Asshole!

I told you a month ago, go to SD Aggieland, I can probably get you a cheap room at the Marriot.

Was that mid November?



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That's a great idea Jay. I think I know a shirt guy that willl print them. :D



There is a dz in texas that i was planning on spending a load of money before the game on jumping. Fuck that, i am not supporting no skyride affiliation. So, what dz's in Texas do not support skyride so we can plan accordingly



Hey Asshole!

I told you a month ago, go to SD Aggieland, I can probably get you a cheap room at the Marriot.

Was that mid November?


Yes, the plan was to goto temple but looks like i will be avoiding that dz...i am good with aggieland..dave is always good for some shiner.
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do you realize that when you critisize people you dont know over the internet, you become part of a growing society of twats? ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?

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California

Bay Area Skydiving, Byron - Accepts Skyride
Perris Valley Skydiving, Perris - Accepts Skyride
Skydive Elsinore, Lake Elsinore - Accepts Skyride
Adventure Center Skydiving, Hollister - Accepts Skyride
Skydive San Diego, San Diego, Accepts Skyride
Skydive Taft, Taft, Accepts Skyride



What's up with all of these California DZ's who take Skyride?


I believe Skydance does (did?) as well, so if so, that would be all the Bay Area players besides Lodi (pity the fool who takes a skyride ticket there and sees the $100 tandem price). I've seen other services selling tandems for Monterey Bay at Sportsbasement, but there was nothing untoward about it.

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Still trying to verify whether DeLand does or not accept the certificates.

BUT - in the "FWIW" Dept.: We were doing a road trip up North "to Crosskeys and beyond" a while back, and realized we were near the Skyride's DZ in Perkasie, PA, so we decided to swing by and have a little look. Morbid curiosity, I guess. We sat in the parking lot for about 20 minutes & watched a couple of loads.

The Twin Otter they were using that day for those loads was clearly marked: "Skydive DeLand."

That's all I know, but I did see it with my own eyes.

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California

Bay Area Skydiving, Byron - Accepts Skyride
Perris Valley Skydiving, Perris - Accepts Skyride
Skydive Elsinore, Lake Elsinore - Accepts Skyride
Adventure Center Skydiving, Hollister - Accepts Skyride
Skydive San Diego, San Diego, Accepts Skyride
Skydive Taft, Taft, Accepts Skyride



What's up with all of these California DZ's who take Skyride?


I believe Skydance does (did?) as well, so if so, that would be all the Bay Area players besides Lodi (pity the fool who takes a skyride ticket there and sees the $100 tandem price). I've seen other services selling tandems for Monterey Bay at Sportsbasement, but there was nothing untoward about it.


Actually, I think they are the only NorCal DZ to NOT accept Skyride certificates. All the others probably just fear that Lodi would take all the business if they didn't accept them.

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Perris Valley Skydiving, Perris - Accepts Skyride



What's up with all of these California DZ's who take Skyride?


Are you sure Perris Valley accepts Skyride certificates? I was at the Group Membership Meeting in 2005 where the owner of Perris Valley, Melanie Castner, stood up and told all those in attendence that they were going to immediately stop taking certificates from Skyride and would never take them again. She got a standing-ovation from all the 100+ dropzone owners/staff in attendence.

Did she lie?
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do you realize that when you critisize people you dont know over the internet, you become part of a growing society of twats? ARE YOU ONE OF THEM?

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I would guess that at that time she wasn't intentionally telling a lie (though looking back now, it may appear that way), but rather may have been caught up at the moment, and later came to the conclusion that taking the certificates was in their best interest. It may have been...short-term, that is. They will get screwed in the end. What happens when they get the call that "so-and-so just a few miles farther are doing it for this rate now, can you match or beat that?"

It just bothers me that the bigger dz's in CA choose to take these tandem students at an obvious discounted rate, and wait on payment from the broker who is making money from nothing other than blatant deception (which they themselves are inadvertently promoting by participation).

Rather than standing together as a unified front, they choose to compromise their positions, and their possible income from making a moral and ethical pact with one another is lost to the third-party's deceptive tactics.

Sadly, I do not believe they realize that the money they lose in this juggling (or, money that is withheld from them from these consumers) is at the same time being used to pay the lawyers to sue their own organization which issues their ratings and group memberships - they are, in essence, paying the attorneys' fees of those that are bringing suit against their own governing body, which they are already paying into as Group Members. They are paying for the ridiculous case against themselves.

They should be ashamed.
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