the trend is............

On Oct 21, 9:29*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:29:16 -0600, Bill Daniels wrote:
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These are likely to be extremely automated winches so I wouldn't pay a
winch driver very much - if anything. *Professional winch drivers are
likely to go extinct the way elevator (Lift?) operators did.

Point, but if the club is operating 7 days a week with almost continuous
training courses you need a paid winch driver no matter how easy the
winch is to operate.

If the club is that active then you need 2 or 3 paid winch drivers.
Ours do a lot of other work when it's not flying weather, and one of
them will be a Glider Inspector soon as well.