Eric Greenwell wrote:

Do you think the people complaining about the PW5 have the talent and
drive to become world level pilots, and the only thing holding them back
is the lack of a cheap competitive glider? I have the feeling most of
these pilots are more interested in a cheap high performance glider, and
not high-level competition.

My experience with world level competion pilots makes me think they will
fly _anything_ that lets them compete, though most prefer to fly the
high performance gliders.

In many countries (including France) you just cannot win a place for
world class worlds flying a PW5, because there is no national
championships (I think there are only 3 PW5 in France)!

In french team the 2 pilots who went to world class WGC had to select in
standard class or 15m nationals, they were happy to go there rather than
having no place in any WGC but surely were somewhat frustrated not to go
to a "true" WGC...

I don't say that the WC concept is not good, but perhaps the PW5 was not
the better choice for that...

--
Denis

R. Parce que ça rompt le cours normal de la conversation !!!
Q. Pourquoi ne faut-il pas répondre au-dessus de la question ?