Bonus Step: Start launching with a winch. That will pull in, train and retain the 'young Youth' pilots. It will probably shorten the calendar duration of everyone's training because more flights will get launched on Saturday afternoon.

WOW - you figured that one out all by yourself or did you cheat and look at what is going on across the pond?? ;-)
A small group in the US - commonly referred to as the winch-heads - has been preaching that for years by now and we are slowly seeing results. A number of new winch operations have started up across the US using rebuilt Gehrlein-type winches and there is at least one exciting new home-built winch concept in the making. Our operation is doing a fair amount of pre-solo trainig on the winch and the kids love it! Cheaper and much more of a wow-factor than aero-towing: super-car acceleration, climb rates which top that of the best brand C, M or P power plane, climb angles of 40deg+, etc. to name a few.

Uli