At 14:15 30 August 2019, wrote:
On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 2:15:04 AM UTC-4, Paul T wrote:
At 13:30 29 August 2019, wrote:

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and Ridge Soaring has been on the 'for sale' market for
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Seems to me you need to think of a plan to buy some of=20
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properties up and establish non profit clubs at them -maybe
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change' is required in the US.

Problem is real estate prices. In the old days you could buy a
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enough
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piece of property for a small enough amount of money to run
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soaring
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tion as a hobby business. Perhaps SSA should do more
fundraising
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lly for purchasing airports? Or spend the money lobbying
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gov't to
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y airports for our use(only half joking.) The Hanggliding/PG
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spends
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a bunch of their resources securing real estate. They've also
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y had to go into the insurance business themselves, which is
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terrible
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come, but I understand they didn't have much choice. =20
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Real estate prices are also high in Europe yet clubs still manage
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purchase airfields.......

Don't you guys have zoning laws that say once an airport or
cheese shop or
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whatever the land use was it has to stay that way forever? Thus
keeping
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ices for old airfields reasonable? Not cheap, reasonable. Some
American
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lubs do buy their own airports but there is a difference between a
few
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red thousand for a rural airport and a few million for the examples
we
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here.


Don't know where you heard that? In the Uk they are turning most
old airfields and some active ones into housing or industrial estates
-prime prices. One can always find excuses on ways not how to -
maybe some of those mega rich flyboys you have in the USA like
Tito could help out? I think Lasham was £1.5 million some years ago
when it was purchased.?