At 13:30 29 August 2019, wrote:

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

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

Real estate prices are also high in Europe yet clubs still manage to
purchase airfields.......