worth learning to fly gliders?

On 2006-06-18, Emily wrote:
Haven't actually flown VFR much for years, except while instructing. I
really only fly to go somewhere, but have been toying with the idea of a
glider rating for a while. Is it worth it?

There are commercial operations which are just like a regular FBO, but
they are not as common as a club. You can always tell the club when you
join that yes, I'm an A&P, but no, I'm not doing your maintenance
(although generally in a club environment, everyone has to muck in
somehow - but there are plenty of other non-A&P jobs to be done such as
flying the tow plane to running wings).

As for whether soaring is worth it, I'll just let my videos speak for
that. You'll need an MPEG-4 video player - if you don't have one get VLC
- http://www.videolan.org - which is a free open source MPEG-4 player.

http://www.alioth.net/Video/AGC2005.mp4
http://www.alioth.net/Video/HatCam.mp4

(There's a few others in http://www.alioth.net/Video)

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