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What percentage of USA glider pilots compete?
On Mar 28, 3:35 pm, Jeremy Zawodny wrote:
toad wrote: On Mar 28, 2:13 pm, Marc Ramsey wrote: The soaring safety foundation website claims 12,512 SSA members in 2005. Which gives 4.7 % of SSA members competed in the last 3 years. Now how many of those members were active ? Got it. For reasons I cannot justify, I'd make the wild-ass assumption that 30-40% of them are inactive. Jeremy My first flight in a sailplane was in 1970. The argument about competition coverage was going on in the 70's and it will probably pop up as long as we have a Soaring magazine. There's a few points i'd like to make. If you have ever taken a history course, you've learned a lot about wars. They are the most historical events, even if they are not indicative of most of our daily lives. The same can be said for the coverage of sailplane competitions. They are the most newsworthy events in the sailplane world. When I think of flying sailplanes, I think of lazy summer afternoon flights and that's probably how most of us experience soaring. That doesn't mean I don't want to hear about competitions. Only a small percentage of pilots compete. Only a small percentage of pilots can afford to compete. Of the remaining percentage of sailplane pilots, many would compete if they could afford to, in both time and money. The number of pilots who compete does not represent the interest in sailplane competiton. There are many people who are great fans of football, basketball, baseball, etc but who are not competitors or even interested in being competitors in these sports. |
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