Why is Soaring declining

Martin Gregorie wrote in message . ..
On 18 Apr 2004 23:11:00 -0700, (Lennie the
Lurker) wrote:

As far as the gliders go, I had my 1-26 and was happy with it, I was
even happy with it after I had flown it.

Dammit, Lennie, you keep putting reasons in front of me to visit the
States again - I really must fly a 1-26 to see why so many pilots like
them.

Think it appeals to those that like to keep things simple. It's a
simple plane, rigging it takes two people maybe 20 minutes, the second
time, and, mine anyhow, the cockpit was pretty uncluttered. Rudder
inputs are more like what one would expect from a powered plane,
pressures instead of movements, but other than being more responsive
than the 2-33 was, it flew about the same.

Then there's the possibility that some of them just like thumbing
their noses at the glassholes and cranking out some pretty darn
impressive flights. Not a world beater or record setter, but for
puttering in the "house thermal" just a fun little plane.