Where is everyone flying!? What are you flying!? How did you get there? What do you do for your radio call procedure? Hows your pay?? Do you jump?

I will start, I am currently flying out near Sacramento Cali, but my home base is Sussex NJ! I am flying a 182, and a turbo charged 3 blade with the sweet bladed, 206. I started off at 280 hrs ttl time flying jumpers im now coming up on 700 hours (7-8 months later), and LOVING every single day of work! I talk to the local APP which is now Norcal and they love us!

I also call on Unicom 2 minutes prior and use "XXX traffic, use caution, you got skydiving, thats parachute jumping in 2 minutes out of one one, that's eleven thousand, and of course below, on the west side of the airport, if your in the vicinity of the XXX airport use extreme caution skydiving in two minutes" Then 1 min prior I make a very short version of that, and jumpers away I make something 1/2 the length of that, and when my jumpers are open I make a quick call you got canopy's 5k and below west side of field, then 2 minutes later just say use caution 3k and below, then as I setup on my 45 if the airport is busy and I see my jumpers are down say skydivers are no longer in the air! That seems to be making the people out here happy!

I made about 400 a week in NJ, it was a more FIXED pay, but I flew over 40 hours a week in the peak of summer, out here I get $15 a load, its the winter so its slower but thats not bad for 182/206 pilot

I jump, got my A, have 37 jumps and want to keep it up! I hope to not have to leave the sport for awhile! I want to try and skip the regionals and both the DZOs I work for seem to have full intent to keep me around and get me in their turbines when the time comes!