On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 8:45:03 PM UTC-5, T wrote:
Our updates this year is to install transponders in club gliders. We've made the purchase, now for the install. With the expansion of the local Class B, moving our airport under a shelf, previously we were on the edge, plus lowering of Class B just north of us, we feel transponders are prudent. Better seen by ATC, heavier aircraft with TCAS will get returns on us. It will not protect us from the GA "bug smasher" ducking under the edge of Class B to other Satillite airports. We'll still need the Mark-1 eyeball for those. Next step will be the mandated ADS-B Out for the tow plane. T

Pardon my ignorance but I don't know where 'T' flies.... ;-)
Our club - the Carolina Soaring Association in Spartanburg, SC - made the same decision reg. the transponder for our trainer. We are close to the Greenville class C and commuter jets from CLT routinely barrel through overhead at 4,000ft.
As for the rest, our club's winch received an upgraded level-wind mechanism and is increasing in popularity. Since our Pawnee is down for its annual, a number of members took their first flight of the season either with an instructor or safety in the back seat on the winch.
Our membership is slightly up from last year and we organized a ground school to prep for GLD-COMM.
Looking forward to a good season '13.
Uli