On Monday, January 27, 2014 3:48:32 PM UTC-8, JS wrote:
There's a lot of winter boredom where it's cold?

Tehee!

Jim

I believe this subject came up before. You can use OLC to compare number of hours, flights, kms flown east vs west and you will find similar ratio which explains the difference. The soaring season never ends in the west. Another factor could indeed be the less forgiving terrain we often fly over in the west.
I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with quality of instructions as I recall a prominent instructor claims.

Ramy (who just had over 3 hours XC flight last weekend in the west)