Bars Shaker: well done, although it's a bit depressing that it took three pages before we got a spliff gag.
What we still haven't heard is a reasoned case for avoiding grass in ordinary single engined piston aircraft. I am still curious why this is adopted as policy by certain clubs and schools. Individual groups may make the decision based, perhaps, on their members' misunderstandings of their aircraft's capability, those misunderstandings being possibly fed by instructors with a narrow focus; but what about clubs? Is it simply nervousness amongst inexperienced instructors, or do insurers put the pressure on? A commonly reported type of accident involves overloaded low-powered aircraft failing to get safely airborne from grass runways, usually as a result of disregard for performance calculations, so perhaps that sort of thing filters through the insurers to the clubs?