"Tim Mara" wrote in message
...
there is one very solid reason soaring is declining.that is the lack of
qualified gliding instructors!
If any of us expect to keep soaring alive it's not only recruiting new
members, but also, and more inportantly, having someone available to bring
these new recruits to the poinyt where that can actually get certification
and eventually fly and own their own gliders....
tim


Yep, and a lot of instructors are quitting because they are fed up with the
back seat of a 2-33.

Bill Daniels