Well,

If you pay a glider 72,000 Euros and can get 12,000 hours out of it, the
amortization of the glider is 6 Euros per hour. That's not expensive.

In my club here in Switzerland we have people from all parts of society
(even school boys), we have all sorts of expensive gliders, and we have
aeroto launching.

If you go to Vinon or to Challes, it's the same thing. I don't see the
people you talk about being excluded from soaring through cost.


"Michel Talon" wrote in message I think we are
living in totally different sides of the society. I live
in a side where researchers and professors, and i don't speak of
students have barely enough money to support their family, and not to go
skying or other high expense stuff. I am old enough to have known a time
when very ordinary workers were able to afford gliding, and were the
majority of gliding clubs. With reasonings such as yours, these people
have gradually been excluded from clubs.

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Michel TALON