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Old December 4th 04, 11:26 PM
Peter Seddon
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Where I live I havn't seen
snow for a great number of years so naturally it drops as rain. Out of
the
52 flying weekends last year, 4 were lost to holidays 6 were lost to
familly committments and about 30 were lost to bad weather. That 's the
reason gliding is declining for new members, people loose interest
through
lack of flying weather. The UK has had three wery wet summers and mild
wet
winters, days like last Sunday when I had 3hrs 3 mins to 12000ft are very
few and far between.

Peter.


Yes, but the point is that support for gliding is getting _worse_. The
weather isn't, in fact (and I speak from about 40 years experience in the
game), if anything it's getting better (remember global warming).

And although I take your point about this year, 2003 was one of the good
ones. (Certainly I managed 80 hours flying at a weekends only from North
Yorkshire, despite 6 weeks lost to health problems).





Not on the west coast it wasn't, although other thing conspired to keep our
club out of the air.

Peter


 




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