Bruce Hoult wrote:
In article 400ae103$1@darkstar,
(Mark James Boyd) wrote:

If all you have is a winch, a 2-33, and stable air when the student
has time to fly, how are you gonna fly a dual cross-country?

More to the point: why do you bother having a "gliding" club there at
all?

-- Bruce

Let's see, because some people like to get a "glider" license
so they can take up friends and family on calm days at sunset
on high tows and glide in quiet and serenity.

Because the local "glider" operation is close and you can get
a license there in the winter when CFIG's and gliders are
easy to schedule and if you had to go to a "soaring" site
200 miles away for all your training you'd never get a license
and never get to fly with your friends and family.

Because the 80% of the glider pilots that never go X-C
are willing to spend money there in the winter so that the
operation makes enough money so that it is alive in the
summer/soaring season and the tow pilots and CFIG's are
well rehearsed and current in flying takeoffs and
landings.

Because takeoffs and landings are the majority of accidents
in gliding and practicing these things during the off
months gives more experience for the later soaring months.

Etc...

....but I'm sure you could come up with more reasons if
you thought about it...