On Friday, October 14, 2016 at 7:12:57 AM UTC+13, Luke Szczepaniak wrote:
The biggest challenge for youth in North America is access to gliders
that can be flown XC let alone taken away to a contest (club policy not
performance issue).

The biggest challenge for "full time" employed people is the extremely
limited vacation time in North America.

What would you say is typical in the USA and Canada these days?

The two countries I know about (legal minimums):

New Zealand (where I'm from): 20 days paid vacation, plus 11 days paid holidays.

Russia (where I'm working now): 20 days[1] paid vacation, plus 12 days paid holidays, plus 5 day[2] New Year holiday.

[1] described as 28 days, but if you are forced to take entire weeks off then those will include Saturdays and Sundays in the 28 days. My employer forces one planned vacation of at least 14 consecutive calendar days, which means two weekends of "paid vacation" are lost, but the other 14 days can be fitted around (not on) weekends and public holidays as desired. So, effectively: 24

[2] Jan 7 is Christmas, and is always observed on the 7th, whether weekend or weekday. In addition, Jan 1-5 are holidays, but if some of those days fall on a weekend then they are moved to the 6th or 8th (only).