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Old May 5th 18, 09:42 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dave Walsh
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Default Soaring not compatible with modern society?

I did not mean to be negative about "little engines"; I wholly
approve of the idea of little engines; just a pity that so many of
the current ones are unreliable. Jets and electric motors may
change this? Anything to avoid Farmer Joskin's fields is good in
my book.

The idea that we have "insurance" and that this makes it all-
right to suffer landing-out damage is laughable. One of the
reasons that insurance premiums are so high is to cover the
cost of all that prangery; then after a prang there's the
insurance excess to pay, typically thousands.

Pilots manage enough prangs at airfields without adding
unknown fields into the mix.

To the earlier poster who claimed soaring was not expensive!
Well it's always good to meet a fellow pilot from another
universe.....
Dave Walsh