Can gliding become a TV sport?

On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:59:32 AM UTC-7, Squeaky wrote:
Imagine the fun and camera's covering a landout...
Like the one story in Soaring magazine where the buuba's on the four
wheelers and the babes in tank tops come out with beer to help...

Or Farmer Bill goes off on a rant about his destroyed peanut plants and
the thousands of dollars he wants in recompense, swearing at flyboys
havin their fun and not caring about the 'merican farmer...

Glider pilots getting into fights back at the field about sharing

thermals, circling the wrong way, near misses, etc...

..you know, all the stuff that never happens until a camera crew turns

up.
If that aint reality TV nothing is.

Squeaky

Funny post. But the proposed event is nothing like what we now know as a competition. It's a short 1 - 2 hour AST with emergency landing fields already picked out. Someone might land in a farm field but it's unlikely and the farmers would have been warned of the possibility and arrangements made.