One should also remember that nearly 100% of the customers pay nearly 100% of the time.
Gliding clubs should take a good look at the way major charities are run, they pay the people who make the organisation tick a decent living and persuade the rest to volunteer.
In gliding terms, that should equate to paying pilots the going rate, someone to run the club properly and then everyone else gives their time for nothing.
It's rather a shame we see these patronising appeals every year for those on the desperate edge of CPl/ATPL wanabees to go and waste their lives at their own considerable cost to fly for nothing, meanwhile, as has been readily admitted, many gliding clubs make a good living.
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