On 24/08/2010, at 7:47 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > Mark Newton should have gone to another flying school in the swamp. There are > few problems which if tackled in just the right way cannot be made more > expensive and difficult to solve.
Sure, and the same logic says that the mythical disappointed trainees you're always banging on about can go to gliding clubs with Nimbus 4DMs and Jabirus. I can't see any particular reason why your preferred training path can't happen right now under the current regulatory framework, and there are enough gliding clubs out there conjoined with ultralight ops now to make the option available. If it's so good, why isn't the market demanding it? I know that I could have made different decisions to get a different result in my GA training. For instance, I could have taken a couple of weeks off work and turned up at Parafield every day until I finished the license (if I took the _right_ two weeks and didn't get weathered-out. I'd have been even more frustrated if I'd burned a fortnight of annual leave and didn't have a ticket at the end of it...!) But within the time constraints I had available (essentially one day per week, which had to be on a weekend) I had to take what I could get. Just like all the people in gliding, ultralights, and the now defunct parallel path: We all invest the personal resources we can afford, and take what we can get in return. Aviation requires personal discipline, dedication and lots of time. You can't get away from that, regardless of how you choose to do it. The idea that you can wave a magic wand and a 2-seat ultralight purchase order in front of a gliding operation to solve its member retention and safety issues is fanciful and overly simplistic. Any better ideas? - mark -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, [email protected] but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1620-2223 ------------- Fax: +61-8-82231777 ----- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
