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On May 10, 12:51 pm, Brian wrote:
Why are glider pilots such cheapskates? - they'll spend 100k on a ship
and then baulk at spending 10, 20 or 50 on some minor piece of
equipment.

Some of us are cheapskates because we can't afford anything else.

I fly an $11,000 glider that I have owned for almost 10 years, Drive a
$1,500 Car.

Last year I paid...
$144 Insurance
$64 SSA Membership
$75 Annual
$10 State Registration
$550 for Glider Tows.
for a yearly total budget of about $843
I would love to have SeeYou but it costs almost 21% of my annual
soaring budget.

Brian

Get a proper job then

Al

That is about the rudest comment I have seen in year.

With attitudes like that, I am beginning to understand why we don't see more
young people in the soaring community.

There are many of us who fly what they can afford; however, we do fly and we
enjoy it. Yes we could spend more on the sport if soaring was the only
thing in our life that we considered important.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder