It's a minority sport after all.
I seem to remember that the last time the CAA did a survey
gliders were the majority at week ends
8,000 glider pilots in the UK, how many airline pilots that are not glider pilots? Around 3,000 gliders. How many aeroplanes?
UK is the world no 1 ranked country for competition gliding, one of the very few sports Britain is good at.
UK junior gliding team recently scored 1st,2nd and 3rd in junior world gliding champs, how many other sports field such a strong junior team? In recent years the UK has scooped around 50% of the medals at world and European level.The BGA is very proud of its youth training, will the transponder bill force them to cut this ? I guess kids of this generation dont need to grow up being air minded and experiencing the beauty and wonder of exploring the sky. They could always just getting drunk and do drugs like the other kids.
In terms of airsport, gliding is far from a minority!
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