I don`t think you`re right.

In fact, if you take a look at the inflation, gliders have become
cheaper, or equally priced compared to 1980.

So the whole problem isn`t about more expensive gliders but less glider
pilots which mean less sold, which means a larger penalty per glider
for development. Thát`s the problem.

http://www.lak-deutschland.de/lak/PD...iste1-2004.PDF

Seems considerable less that a DG, AS or SH ;-)