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I Wish Our Website Was As Good As This
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very nice internet site indeed.
Bravo for the web designer ! Lasham Pilot a écrit : a href="http://www.londonglidingclub.co.uk"http://www.londonglidingclub.co.uk/a |
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nimbus wrote:
very nice internet site indeed. Bravo for the web designer ! Lasham Pilot a écrit : a href="http://www.londonglidingclub.co.uk"http://www.londonglidingclub.co.uk/a Maybe it's a good web design, but from a pilot's point of view, some statements are questionable : Quote:
I program my task, I would be lost. As an instructor, I merely teach how to avoid getting lost, without any flight computer. Of course I also explain how to use flight computers and GPS, when available, but a pilot must be able to maintain situation awareness without them. |
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Hi Robert,
Pilots choose which one they want to fly, program it into their flight computers (so they don't get lost) and set off. I take all the blame for poorly worded webpages. But in fairness, the general public relates to SatNav & getting lost! I seriously doubt saying, 'we program our flight computers so we don't accidentally break airspace and cause a major incident' would be appropriate I am quite interested in peoples views as this site is an experiment - it's designed totally for non-gliding people. I've tried to keep the text as accurate as possible, without getting bogged down in a morass of technicalities! As a club we need to attract more members & more trial lessons - and this site is aimed at getting people from outside of the gliding movement. Personally, I set about making a site that would help break some of the stereotypes associated with gliding. For example, I wanted people to discover that gliders CAN go cross country or do aerobatics, that they aren't just blown by the wind. Having done a lot of gliding publicity events I know that these misconceptions are rife (in the UK at least) and are not doing our sport any favours! Why would anybody want to take up a sport that they perceive as a lot of standing around for a simple drift back to the ground? It's too early to tell if it's working - but we're not selling any less 'vouchers' than before, so I guess that's a start! Mel |
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Nice website
For release the glider appears to move out to the right, releases and flies straight while the Pawnee split S's to the right. Is this the normal release procedure in England? |
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7C wrote:
As a club we need to attract more members & more trial lessons - and this site is aimed at getting people from outside of the gliding movement. Mel, from my experience, selling vouchers and getting new people on the airfield isn't the problem when it comes to membership. It's convincing them to spend six hours a day at the field for just three flights on an on-going basis that's the problem! Cambridge is the only club in the UK I know of that's cracked that, via their booking system. Dan |
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At 10:06 12 January 2007, Soarin Again wrote:
For release the glider appears to move out to the right, releases and flies straight while the Pawnee split S's to the right. Is this the normal release procedure in England? No. The release method used by this BRITISH pilot is to pull up until the ropes nice and tight before releasing to be sure that the tug pilot knows I've gone. I find the resultant pitch departure also prevents them becoming blase about the result of an accidental tug upset at low levels. |
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I am quite interested in peoples views as this site is an experiment -
it's designed totally for non-gliding people. The previous version of the site was pretty good, and made my own UK clubsite look pretty poor (but then it was anyway). The new site is very good. Good pictures, nice text, imho. Well laid out; easy to get around; and clearly aimed at the public as you admit. I just wonder, do you have your own non-public "members" section imbedded for use by those who know how, for club data, rosters, documents etc? Neil |
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Use the button "pilots", then "members site", and you will find the old
website for now. Yes, Melissa has done a good job, and she flies her LS4 in Nationals as well. Have a look at the on-line booking system at "Motor glider bookings", better than a casual system! W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.). Remove "ic" to reply. "Neil" wrote in message ... I am quite interested in peoples views as this site is an experiment - it's designed totally for non-gliding people. The previous version of the site was pretty good, and made my own UK clubsite look pretty poor (but then it was anyway). The new site is very good. Good pictures, nice text, imho. Well laid out; easy to get around; and clearly aimed at the public as you admit. I just wonder, do you have your own non-public "members" section imbedded for use by those who know how, for club data, rosters, documents etc? Neil |
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Dan G wrote: Mel, from my experience, selling vouchers and getting new people on the airfield isn't the problem when it comes to membership. It's convincing them to spend six hours a day at the field for just three flights on an on-going basis that's the problem! Absolutely. A quick glance at the statistics in S&G will show that gliding attracts plenty of people - and then loses them again. Even though many customers have no intention of taking more than the trial lesson (not a joyride. dear me not a joyride. certainly not a joyride. a nice, legal, trial lesson), the attrition rate for those who do join is dreadful. And I am afraid that's down to clubs and members, many of whom think that learning to glide is a) a good trial of character and b) a source of unpaid ground labour for private owners. Let's face it, learning to glide - or trying to learn to glide - can be a miserable experience. Ian |
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