In a different thought-provoking thread, on 8/12/2014 7:34 PM, Evan Ludeman wrote:

Major snippery...
We have the sweat equity thing covered. And in my experience, this is
pretty common in US soaring clubs.

Winches are non-starters at most ops I've been involved in. We don't have
the space and more space is prohibitively expensive. Existing airports in
the 4500+ range are mostly asphalt, public use, high performance GA, with
runway lights and traffic and not really a step up in the "nice to hang
out" direction. An old but serviceable tow plane is a hell of a lot more
economical than scratching a new 4500x300 airfield out of trees, rocks or
farm land.

Soaring ops don't work, business wise, because the utilization of real
estate, capital and labor is appallingly bad. Unfortunately, I don't see
an easy way to improve this (and neither does anyone else, thus the general
shape of things in US soaring).

What's it take to found a religion :-)?

Drifting too far from the topical shore...

Ask Mr. Pastafarian himself, Bobby Henderson. N.B.: Several stories down,
kinda-sorta in E.L.'s neck of the woods, prolly so can Chris Schaeffer of
Pomfret Township (NY? CT?).

http://www.venganza.org/

:-)

As to what this has to do with soaring...it was a good soaring day out here?
Yeah, it's a stretch!