That's why they invented FAI 1000, 2000 and 3000 Km
Diplomas and why a lot of countries introduced their
own 750 km diplomas.

My observation (mainly in the UK) is that the ratio
of failures to sucesses on first 50 and 300 km flight
attempts has not changed all that much in the last
30 years, but the sucessful ones get round quite a
bit faster than they used to.

Apart from the SSA's 'lennies' no one seems to have
come up with a benchmark above Diamond Altitude Gain.
Just out of curiosity, how many pilots have doubled
ALL the requirements for a Diamond Badge?

At 12:30 01 March 2005, Stefan wrote:
Andrew Warbrick wrote:

Which is the hard one depends where you live,

It should always be remembered which gliders were in
use when those
badges were defined. With today's material those badges
are not exactly
a joke, but have lost a lot of their magic.

Stefan