Bert Willing wrote:
In rural France, maybe... but then, who wants a house there :-)


A lot of brits apparently :-)

For an estimation of the "real price" of a glider, real estate is not of
much help. If you compare it to the mean of yearly gross income, you will
find that gliders haven't become that much more expensive.

Income of whom, exactly? If of drug dealers, perhaps, yes. If of honest
civil servants, then salary is straight the same as ten years ago and
gliders are twice as expensive.

And anyhow, looking at 2-years+ delivery times, these prices don't seem to
be a big problem to a significant number of pilots.

So significant that many glider manufacturers went belly up. Let's be serious,
gliders have become out of reach for almost anybody here.


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Michel TALON