May I also remind you that very sadly there has been another middar this year, again in VMC, and resulting in the lose of 4 lives. No gliders were involved in that one.
There appears to be a reluctance to do anything and nothing but excuses by the gliding fraternity clinging onto unwarranted excemptions that gliders enjoy to what the rest of us have to comply with.
'clinging on to exemptions' had nothing whatsoever to do with the first middair (it didn't involve a glider), and since the second was in VMC I doubt very much it had anything to do with that either. Hopefully the AAIB will produce informative reports on both, hopefully PDQ. In the meantime, if you are so concerned, there are a number of suggestions in the thread about how you can mitigate the risk to yourself that are either free or pretty cheap. Implement at least some of them. Otherwise the rest of us will have excellent grounds for complaining that:
There appears to be a reluctance to do anything and nothing but excuses by Pace