From: esj@wasp.eng.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
Subject: Round Robin Record?
Reply-To: esj@wasp.eng.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
Organization: U of Florida  Engineering Computer Support Facility
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 92 02:30:33 GMT

Round Robin's. Fun skydiving involving leaving one DZ in a plane 
and jumping into others. On Sep 23 A group of friends and I left 
Palatka at 9am in a Cessna 206 piloted by Mike Rouse and
did 9 DZ's in one day. We think this might be a record. (IE no one
has challenged us yet ;-)

The itenerary:

Flager Beach
Deland
Titusville
Skydive Tampa Bay (lakeland)
Zhills
Umitlla
Williston
Keystone
And the final jump back into Palatka.


We made them all. At Williston we got out at 4000' because of weather and
the jump back into palatka was skirting clouds and rain, but other then that
we had great weather. 

This was on a wendesday, so at a lot of the DZ's we were greeted by the
owners and no one else. Flagler had some students. Deland was jumping
like usuall, but I cornered Mike Johnston and got his sig in my log
book.  Lyle Gooodwin (the owner) was the only one home at Titusville.
Likewise Cliff Dobson (the owner) was the only one at Skydive Tampa.
Zhills (Phoenix) was just getting started and I have Kabellers
signature in my log book. Jimmy Godwin was napping when we landed at
Umitilla, but woke up and came out and said hi. People were hanging
around at Williston, but since we had been told that the DZ would be
closed we landed next to the FBO on the other side of the airport for
the pilots sake. No one was home at Keystone but a lineman offered to
call Joe Davis for us. We decined. After jumping back into home (PPC)
we collected a dinner, since the DZO's bet us we couldn't make all of
them. ;-)

The whole experience was a absolute blast. At titusville we landed off
the airport (one guy with us claimed 500 jumps there and took over
spoting from our usuall spotter) Me and Doug landed at a local
community collage and got a ride back to the DZ with two lovely women.
Dean and Brian landed in someones postage stamp sized front yard and
walked. Karen and Tom (the spotter) made it back to the DZ.

On the way across florida from titusville to lakeland (tampa) we passed
a jet at 4-500 feet. This right over disney world in the middle of the
orlando TCA. A controller kept trying to get us to go higher, but the
206 couldn't. So we were told to hold 7000'. We did and shortly
thereafter we saw a 707 decending into orlando not more them 4-500'
above us. We joked that we could have ordered drinks ;-)




We had called all the DZ's in advance. Its not nice to jump into
someone elses DZ without asking first, even if you bring your own
plane.

Mike Rouse (the pilot and owner of the plane, and a well known Deland
jumper) has asked around and we may have set a record for round
robin's. I am curious if any of the net experiance can invalidate
that.


Ej

The players (all except Tom 4way team members and/or video alternate):

Karen Bilder (usual spotter, cpt of the 4way team) 
Bryan Burchfield
Doug Metzger 
Eric Johnson 
Dene Barry 
Tom McCann

Pilot Mike Rouse 
Plane 02X Cessna 206

Wish I knew everyones numbers, but I dont.

Ej

Florida Round Robin 9    #6
FRR9#6