Originally Posted by
Gertrude the Wombat
My one experience of gliding was that I got ten minutes in the air for an entire evening spent hanging around the gliding club.
That I expected, but what I wasn't expecting was that per minute in the air it wasn't much cheaper than powered flying.
Sounds like you had the mispleasure of being at a rubbish ripoff club. Those exist in every form of aviation and are dying out thankfully, I found one local flying school to me charging north of £220ph for PPL instruction in a 152 not including landing fees!!