I haven't seen a reason given yet. I've seen
evasion, obfuscation, less than the whole truth and stonewalling.
I've met and done business with quite a few
people who are PPLs or higher who have
contemplated going gliding. Some own several
powered aircraft and their own airfields even but
when told they have to join a club and have 200
hours "under supervision" (enough for a
commercial licence in the power world) they
instantly lose interest. In most cases they've
already visited gliding clubs and aren't
impressed by what they see. Ask Eddie Madden at
Tocumwal. He runs an RAAus school as well as a
gliding operation. He keeps getting asked by the
RAAus students about gliding. Some have expressed
an interest in buying a self launcher and taking
it home to the farm. When told about the GFA
system, they buy an ultralight. Eddie sees them
every 2 years for a bi annual check.
"Well I have been involved in gliding for some
fourteen years now, with a reasonably sized club
and I am yet to encounter any pilot being too
worried about being classed as "second class aviator"."
Hardly surprising when you think about it.
THE PEOPLE WHO *ARE* WORRIED AREN'T FLYING GLIDERS.
They either never started for the reasons above or have been driven away.
Which if you think about it some more is one of
the reasons for "the fragile state of participation in gliding".
Mike
At 10:50 AM 2/09/2014, you wrote:
On 2 September 2014 07:38, Future Aviation
<<mailto:ec...@internode.on.net>ec...@internode.on.net> wrote:
Simon, can you (and other members of this newsgroup) let me in on your
thinking, please?
âBernard
There were about 80 emails written on this topic
over the last few days all saying about the same
thing, all written by the same few contributors.
It would seem to me that if you need them to
"let you know their thinking" once again, then
perhaps you have not read their contribution carefully enough.
Frankly, I am more interested in maintaining a
simple and inexpensive system to fly gliders in
Australia. Given the fragile state of of
participation in gliding I fear that any rise in
complexity and / or cost will simply drive more
people away. You say "When our newcomers realise
that they will always be treated as second
class aviators we can't blame them when they
vote with their feet." Well I have been involved
in gliding for some fourteen years now, with a
reasonably sized club and I am yet to encounter
any pilot being too worried about being classed as "second class aviator".Â
Cheers
Paul
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