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Grow soaring thru entertainment
Added a similar comment when I filled in the SSA soaring survey.
Want to grow soaring? Market soaring as low-cost entertainment to generate mass appeal. Develop a commercial gliding site that focuses on giving rides only, quickly and cheaply. Look at all the teenagers spending $5-$15 to ride go-karts or roller coasters every Saturday at county fairs. Would they not also pay $5-15 for a quick 750-1000 foot winch or auto launch glider ride? Especially, if the gliders were launching right next to the county fair (airport was next door...or maybe launching right off the fairgrounds themselves). This is entertainment, not soaring. But from the launch to the high bank turn on final, along with the 750 foot altitude, should be quite entertaining for the masses. Key is low cost and keeping the wait in line to less than 15 minutes. Might need several winches and several gliders. And maybe even drop the launch height to 600 feet. (Just want to be high enough to not create any landing pattern safety issues, but low enough to get on the ground as quick as possible for the next ride). Have to compete with other forms of low-cost entertainment, in terms of both time and money. This is how you develop mass appeal. How do these entertaining glides create a benefit for the larger sport of soaring? Thru numbers...throw enough people into the air, and some of them might develop an interest to become soaring pilots. |
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