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November 24th 09, 02:41 PM
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Promote your glider operation
On Nov 23, 11:45*am, John Cochrane
wrote: Pull is good, but conversion is harder. The sad fact is that we fail miserably at converting first rides into long-time pilots. For each ride, how many get a license? For each license, how many are still flying 3 years later? Typical numbers I've heard are about one in a thousand. If that were even one in a hundred, we'd have 10 times more glider pilots! John Cochrane Rough statistics from one club- Valley Soaring Club- Middletown NY Close estimates for '09 About 1600 tows/Yr About 160 introductory flights(360 the year the NY Times article came out). About 40 four flight intro packages which lets prospect see what it's really about- then they join or find out it's not for them. About 15 new members About 10 new solo pilots About 8 new certificated pilots FWIW UH 
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