303pilot brentUNDERSCOREsullivanATbmcDOTcom wrote:

"Michael" wrote in message
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(Mark James Boyd) wrote

Clubs and XC operations make it difficult to go XC by making all sorts
of rules that sound reasonable on paper but add up to making it very
difficult or impossible to get permission. Making the XC required

C'mon Michael, the club req's were to have a bronze badge and call on a
Thursday night to reserve the ship for a day on the weekend.

Well, I still don't have a bronze badge, between a barograph that
broke after a flight and during calibration, lack of O/Os
during the end of my flights, the SSA not sending out
badge packets three months after getting a CFIG, and the shortness
of the silver badge distance flight, I have a Silver badge, but
no bronze badge (but I did take the quiz at least!).

Ask how many of your newbie pilots have flown two hours+ twice,
then how many have a bronze badge, then ask them why they don't.
Paperwork, cost/time/breakage of calibration, lack of equipment
(baro or logger) and lack of O/O's. Of course all of this is
solved by simply increasing the cost/hassle to the pilot...