It is not only incompetence, it is indifference, and I have the emails
from the staff, volunteers and directors to back up that statement.

As to Tony's remarks about the National Association of Flight
Instructors, their magazine has been running a series of glider
training articles since expanding the format of their magazine. Other
specialties get similar exposu helos, acro, tailwheel and sport.

The wounds to SSA are likely terminal. The sooner US pilots start
thinking about what could or should replace it, the better. A good
start would be a different governing structure.