At 01:55 14 February 2011, wrote:

We called the newspaper and asked them to retract the story and write
what really happened. We found out that the reporter did not even go
to the glider landout...he merely called the police station and asked
if anything interesting happened that day. The paper said they had no
intention of retracting the story or presenting what really happened!

Wrong offer. Tell the person who wrote the story to come on out to the
glider field and they'll get a free demo ride. Bring your photographer
along, too (photogs love subjects like sailplanes). Then once you've
given him the ride and impressed him with the operation, bend his ear a
little bit about what a landout really amounts to (or doesn't).

[But do try and keep him away from the ACA guys drinking beer on the deck.
He might get the wrong impression.]

Jim Beckman