tango4 wrote:

( PS: It might also have something to do with beautiful mountains, wide open
spaces, cheap petrol, good food, passable wine, reasonably priced
accomodation, lots more sunshine and really nice people )


Please, i didn't want to be provocative, i sincerely try to find an
explanation why prices seem to be half in some German clubs that in
France. Since i am convinced of the perfect honesty of the people
managing all these clubs, and they do it for free, the only explanation
i have found, and that you seem to confirm, is that the soaring
conditions are better, hence the average flight is longer, so that you
need more gliders per member of the club. In my experience, you can
count on only one person using a glider in a good day, and average
flights during = 5 hours, whence you are entitled to flying LS4,
Pegase or similar. Obviously if you count 2 people for glider for day,
you can divide price by 2, but this is completely fallacious.

As you can see from many other answers a lot of people think that
"evrything goes well in the best of worlds", that soaring is a sport
for the happy few who want to dedicate a lot of time and money to
the activity, etc. etc. Be sure that with such arguments you will
observe less and less midairs in the future...



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Michel TALON