At 03:30 14 November 2004, Jim Culp wrote:

The Premise: A hundred thousand dollar reduction on
cost of gliders yet in response to that the glider
population in USA would not increase significantly.


Why?

It is because the appeal of glider flight is to a very
special self- selecting population.

Do you believe that?
I do.

I agree. But I also believe that the proportion of
such people in the USA at least equals that in Germany
or Poland. And for some of us, money does make a marginal
difference.

Ian