Then why respond to posts about soaring if you have
no interest in flying? Why not respond to posts about
something that makes sense to you because apparantly
soaring makes absolutly no sense to you.......

At 17:18 23 August 2004, wrote:
On 23 Aug 2004 06:36:44 -0700, (Todd
Smith) wrote:


1) good one-design competition ?
NO, it's too damn slow ! and ugly !

Totally ignoring that it is flying ONLY against others
of the same
type. It's no uglier than any other plastic ship.
They all suck.


My question to the PW-5 supporters.

Would YOU buy one ? As the glider YOU flew every good
soaring day ?
If you want the class to grow, sell whatever you have
and buy a PW-5.

If you can give any rational reason that you want them
to disappear,
and the class to die, other than 'it's not your thing',
it might shed
a little light on the subject. From the many, many
threads that have
blasted anything less than 40:1, it's quite obvious
why it's not being
a success. In other words, if you're not interested,
you are only
joining the small number of high volume bigmouths that
wish only to
impress their 'standards' on others and have pretty
much killed the
class in the process.

When I started, my interest was in the 1-26, and in
particular, MY
1-26, not a half a dozen others, and it was my intention
to stick with
the one type. Net result, I haven't been in a cockpit
for nearly
three years now, and have no intention of subjecting
myself to the
verbal barrage of BS again. It's a blooming hobby,
I don't have to do
it, much less seek the approval of someone else of
how I choose to do
it. Now, if it were as easy to shut mouths as it is
to stay away and
NOT do it. Guidance and help cease to be guidance
and help when they
become blockheaded opinions, as are all of the PW threads
here. It's
far easier and far cheaper for me to stay away and
spend the money on
something that makes sense.