We'll need some kind of formula, mathematicians. Charge for the footprint
of the tow plane, calculate the number of minutes of free flight without
lift (min. sink rate), remainder of flight time for sale -- unless there
is a landout and a trailer comes for retrieval -- subtract that.

Makes one want to hand around the airport just a thermal away.
Nah!

At 03:30 13 February 2009, Dan Silent wrote:
At 02:32 13 February 2009, Dave Newill wrote:
Posted in humor -but with some actual possibly that it might work! Now
the EU is going to start charging corporate aircraft for their Carbon
Footprint. So if I "sell" my flight time in a sailplane to some
corporate aircraft operator - could that not "offset" some of his
fleets carbon footprint? Stranger things have been done in the name of
Carbon offsets! Over to the rest of you to see what comes of this one!
Imagine Soaring being so useful that we could all get paid for our
sport!


Certainly part of pilot training could be done engine off,
or no engine to claim credits!!!
........or simulator to claim more credits!!!
and what about electric gliders? more credits again.........