What I picked up from the comments was the primacy of Gen Y status expectation perceptions on their reaction to the sport.
I guess my view is boosted by my experience with these participants at coaching events.
It would suggest that to be 'successful' the sport could usefully focus on some elements of this.
My view being that the same perceptions also drive grey nomads, who are another key source group for the sport.
Where the appearance of the package enclosing the instruments is indeed as important as the resolution provided; and that they be electronic rather than 'retro' (love that term with all the implied in-built hubris)
Ditto sailplanes that are clearly young, well ahead of directly worrying what performance they develop.
And the the gliding operation be social outcomes focused, again rather than performance based (be that in learning advancement or sporting achievement).
So, flying training about having a good time collectively ahead of getting the sorties in or the training sequences ticked off.
I don't suggest that the sport is any single thing; but nod toward the market above being an expanding one and thus important to the sport being successful.
This is a hard thing to remember when those of us who are fully embedded are up to our armpits in either fighting for a world team place in a comp or socalising with our own peers at a vintage rally.
And I have to admit to a personal ambivalence in participating in a Gen Y/grey nomad focused event where I get to prep/wash/DI the sailplane and get it to the launch point so that the user group can stroll out from airconditioned ease to be chauffered around the sky; only to be judged primarily on being 'retro' (love that word).
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