Hi all
The next winter gliding seminar is next Wednesday night 9th July at 7:30pm
The topic will be "Thermal Wave and Ridge Flying" by Bernard Eckey
Location will be Internode Systems, Level 3/132 Grenfell Street, Adelaide
(university rooms are not available)
Please bring drinks and nibbles to
This principle (increase price to what the market will bear and hence
balance demand/supply) has also been applied at our club (Caboolture) to
AEF's (the current GFA offering for those wishing to "experience the sport
of gliding"). Check our web site for current prices.
(www.glidingcaboolture.org.
I often make the point to AEF's that none of us get paid for doing this, and most are
genuinely surprised.
It's rare to receive any beefs about the pricing, but compared to the cost of a tandem
hang glider flight, a baloon flight or a parachute drop, we are still good value, at
$140.
>>> [EMAI
Hi,
Some corrections and updates on my earlier post:
| The Garmin GPS models that are ideal for gliding with a Pocket-PC are:
|
| Garmin 72 A$393 12v, display and buttons easy to see/use in flight.
| 2048 trackpoints - interval adjusted by time or distance
| eg 5hr 40m at 10 seconds.
|
Persisting onward with the diverse thread:
If the preceding contributions by many on the list about membership, AEFs,
clubs and flying are taken as acceptable by lurkers on the list; it suggests
that an issue within the sport is to give suitable names to the different
groups that inhabit the sport
1. The low "hit rate" of new members from our AEF participants is perhaps
worth working on from a persective of better marketing our sport. However
as Emilis has alluded to: "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder".
Provided we collectively do not alienate AEF participants and do our best
individu
