I 'm sure there is plenty of money in the system at Lasham, it's just a case of the people running it taking advantage of others.
If ever the old adage 'If you want to make a small fortune in aviation, you best start with a big one' was true then it must have been in gliding.
There is NO money to be made in gliding.
99% of the work is done by volunteers with only the bigger gliding clubs able to afford a manager and CFI on the pay roll.
Maybe the main reason why gliding clubs want tuggies to be glider pilots is that the latter understand what happens in the gliding scene that they avoid the sort of uninformed chaff that is available in this thread in abundance.
No quite sure that I understand the outcry that people contribute to their training. Is not the whole aviation training model based on self funding? Why would gliding be any different?
172, thanks for trying to get in touch, nothing received so far. Feel free to send me a PM rather than email if that works better.