Terry,
Maybe I don't understand; I never thought Gliding was for the "Time
Poor" members of the community.
>From my prospective one of the most important assets/resources one needs to
enjoy gliding is time; most of us on this list put a very high priority on
gliding and make sure we allocate time for the sport sometimes to the
detriment of other areas in our lives. One trend at our club at late has
been the number of members who are retiring, and how some are allocating a
significant amount of their extra time to gliding.
To rub that point in a bit more as we sit at our desks, some of these guys
are flying now and will be enjoying late summer soaring at Temora for the
remainder this week.
SDF
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A real pity from a national perspective. Tocumwal has been really the last
remaining full time commercial operation, providing excellent training at
quite a good price.
Given the recent discussion about the need for GFA to support/provide a more
commercially focused operation to attract the wealthy, time poor people,
this decision makes it seem less viable?
Maybe a facility close to Sydney or Melbourne would do better, focused only
on training? Given that Tocumwal appears to earn most of it's money from the
European cross country pilots, a training focused facility (such as
Caboolture)may struggle to be commercially viable?
Terry
Patching writes:
> Seems a little strange to cut the core business of an operation. Shades of
> a couple of other commercial operations who made the switch to independant
> ops including overseas customers, who are now finding things a little
> difficult.
> It will be interesting.
> Ian P
> KPST
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> Subject: RE: [Aus-soaring] sportavia
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>
>> Didn't say it was unusual, was replying to previous post,but the fact it
>> rates a ront page notice on their website must mean something!
>>
>> David Lawley
>> Computer Manager
>> Elizabeth Primary School
>> Elizabeth East Prinary School
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>>
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>>> Sent: Monday, 27 February 2006 10:48 AM
>>> To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
>>> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] sportavia
>>>
>>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 17:48:46 +1030
>>> "David Lawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I heard (From someone who just returned from there)this
>>> weekend they
>>> > have ceased full time ops until October, confirmed on their website.
>>>
>>> Is that unusual? Why would they stay open 7 days a week all
>>> year? They probably do 90% of their flying in 3 or 4 months.
>>>
>>> I went there for some training years ago, in September iirc.
>>> Although they might have said they were open full time, I was
>>> the only one flying.
>>> Everyone but "my" instructor was busy with maintenance.
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