Bruce Hoult wrote:

Perhaps the hang glider pilots simply don't *know* about these cheap
gliders? Or perhaps they value being able to climb an arbitrary peak
and jump off too much? In which case they're not going to be happy with
less than a self-launching glider.

I think they *know* about these cheap gliders. They also *know* about the
FAA, and $4k cost of training, sales tax, and paying taxes on the thing
every year, and stupid TSA crap that can then possibly rob them of it all.

I'd bet the FAA really isn't interested at all in gliders either,
and we'd have a BGA type setup if we used mostly winches instead of
commonly aerotowing with FAA Numbered aircraft, in the USA.



Personally, I think a new PW-5 or similar for $15k is a pretty damn good
thing. It seems that others don't think so. I'm wierd I guess.

How about that "$11k when bought with a PW-6 deal?" My God, if
anyone wanted to sell me their $11k brand new PW-5 that just "came along"
with the PW-6, I'd pinch myself...
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Mark J. Boyd