On Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:49:18 PM UTC+1, gotovkotzepkoi wrote:

I guess any publicity is better than no publicity but it is unfortunate

that soaring gets associated with something as stupid as the never dying

sci fi fantasy of "bigfoot".

"Unfortunate"? Really? Last time I checked, to a lot of people (and probably most power pilots) the idea of flying for hours and going places in plastic aircraft without engines sounds stupid and Sci Fi-ish!

Soaring is supposed to be fun. But nobody knows about it. And there is always some old fool at the glider field trying to make everybody fly their glider the way he want it done, just like he learned in the airlines/military/Jesuits.

Who knows, maybe the people who watch "Searching for Bigfoot" might be just the crowd we need to keep soaring alive! It sure isn't the current crowd of old fuds!

Kirk
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