Just to throw a "bit of balance " into that statement.

Same competition had a club class. 250 aircraft available - only 10
entries.(including a PW6).
The sad part is that as life changes many pilots find other priorities
impact on their flying.

The majority of PW5s in NZ are club owned and no club owned gliders
appeared at the latest competition!
Previous contestants flying club gliders have moved to different
classes (one to club class, one to standard class) and others have
left the gliding movement.

Of course we should also remember that perhaps it is Matamata :-) as
very few wanted to come to the PW5 World event last year.....

and That was REALLY sad :-(




"Paul" wrote in message ...
The sad part.
There are 23 PW 5 s here in NZ.
22 of those reside in the North Island. A half days drive from Matamata ( at
the most ) where the contest was held.
Only 4 fronted up.



"Liam Finley" wrote in message
om...
Check out the cumulative results for the "Sports-PW5" class in NZ:

http://glidingmatamata.co.nz/competi...sports-pw5.htm

Priceless.