USPA Central Region - Member Information

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The following is information for members of the United States Parachute Association Central Region provided by USPA Central Regional Director Gary Peek.

Information for Safety and Training Advisors

SafetyAndTrainingAdvisors.htm is detailed information for Safety and Training Advisors, but may be of interest to many members, in particular, instructional rating holders.

Information for Members

The USPA web site at www.uspa.org has an incredible amount of information, including that listed below. If you are interested in USPA politics you will find it helpful, which you should be, especially if you are an instructional rating holder.

Info about the governance of USPA including the Governance Manual
Minutes from previous meetings of the Board of Ditrectors
Agendas for coming meetings of the Board of Directors
Information about Board Members

Parachutist magazine includes articles about the BOD meetings a couple of months after each meeting. The articles explain fairly well the main actions of the BOD, but it is the politically correct version and of course lacking the background information and the thought process that ocurred before the decision.

If you would like more information, or if you would like more detail or my take on some of the actions, please feel from to call me.

Old Newsletters

When I first became USPA's Central Regional Director I published (mailed) a number of regular newsletters to Central Region drop zones. When visiting some of these drop zones I asked members what they thought of these newsletters, (which were in some cases attached to a very prominent bulletin board at the dropzone, that I could actually see as I packed.) Not a single member that I asked had read one. The internet has improved communication a lot, but members still need to take the initiative to contact their representatives. For historical purposes they have been converted to web format and are available below.

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Contacting Gary Peek

Note: I am a skydiver. I stay at the dropzone all weekend unless it is winter and the weather is obviously bad.

Mailing address:
Gary Peek
3201 Highgate Lane
St. Charles, MO, 63301

peek@pcprg.com When at home or the office I check email very often.

Home phone: (636) 946-5272 My office is in my home. If you want to talk to me for a while, please call my home number so that my office number will not be tied up. The only time I will not answer the home line is if I am on a business call on the office line.

Office phone: (636) 723-4000 or (800) 435-1975 The best way to reach me quickly is at the office and available at those phone numbers from 9AM to 5PM, but I will answer the office lines any time I am at home.

Office fax: (636) 724-2288 If you fax me something, be damned sure that it is filled out in a manner that can be read, considering that fax machines have less resolution than printers or scanners.

Contacting USPA Headquarters

Mailing address:
United States Parachute Association
5401 Southpointe Centre Boulevard
Fredericksburg, VA 22407

Phone: (540) 604-9470 or (800) 371-USPA
Fax: (540) 604-9741

www.uspa.org The USPA web site has a lot of information on it that you will need, including the online SIM (to tell your students about), parts of the IRM, manuals, forms, info for Safety Day, etc.

If you need something, start there, and if you cannot find what you need, ask USPA Headquarters.

If something is flat out not available then let me know and I'll see if I can get that changed, but please do not ask me for routine documents because I cannot keep track of the latest inforation, which changes regularly.