Not very drunk at all :)

The instructor's name was Andrew Kelly, and the time was May 1998 [1] - quite a long time ago, so forgive my foggy memory. I wasn't on that particular load; I had already done my first jump a few days before...and my second jump 3 days after he passed.

[1] - http://www.skydivingfatalities.info/search.asp?MinDate=5%2F8...