Originally Posted by
Gertrude the Wombat
It certainly confirmed my pre-conceived prejudices, that you spend half a day humping aircraft around on the ground for ten minutes in the air..
That inescapable truth is one of the reasons I switched to powered flying. The other reason I am
very sorry to say is that the 90% of gliding people I met... weren't... my type of people. I mean no offence by this - it's not you, it's me.
Shame, because whacking along in a really nice single-seater on a good day is a lovely activity.