70 kg 31:1 glider is here to stay?

Robert Ehrlich wrote:

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Dans l'article , Charles
Yeates a écrit :



Depends on pocketbook, eh? Some can afford a PW-5 and some ASH25M
Enjoyment of each can be equal.



And others like mysef and many members of my club can't afford anything,
or wouldn't have any money for paying for launches after buying a PW-5,
but our club can afford 4 LS4, 2 Pégases, 1 ASW24, 2 Discus, 2 LS6 (17.5
& 18m), so why would we even consider buying a PW-5?

To compete in the World Class competitions?

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

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Dans l'article , Eric
Greenwell a écrit :


Robert Ehrlich wrote:

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Dans l'article , Charles
Yeates a écrit :



Depends on pocketbook, eh? Some can afford a PW-5 and some ASH25M
Enjoyment of each can be equal.



And others like mysef and many members of my club can't afford anything,
or wouldn't have any money for paying for launches after buying a PW-5,
but our club can afford 4 LS4, 2 Pégases, 1 ASW24, 2 Discus, 2 LS6 (17.5
& 18m), so why would we even consider buying a PW-5?

To compete in the World Class competitions?


This is the only reason for which the 5 PW-5 registered now in France were
bought. No, only 4 of them, one was won as the prize for the 1st World Air
Games. The 2 winners of the 2 first internationnal World Class competitions,
Fred Hoyeau and Julien Henry then reverted to the old FAI classes.

As many of us, I am not a competitor, so this would not be a good reason for
me, maybe I will try some day, but anyway using a club glider, so not in the
World Class.

Eric Greenwell wrote:

To compete in the World Class competitions?


The point is that no more than 1/10 if not 1/100 members of
our clubs wants to compete. ****ing contests are not our most precious
asset, we old europeans ...


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Michel TALON