Crikey, you three are making me wonder whether I ought to take up gliding again instead of blowing 6K boring holes in the sky....I could get a nice 1/3 share in something glass and nippy for 6K. Aaaargh. Trouble is with gliding is that you can't stick some baggage and the wife (are both those terms mutually inclusive?) in and go somewhere. Agree with the golf club mentality too but don't you get the same at powered clubs? I've only visited them, never been a member. I don't miss getting fried in the summer driving the winch all day only to get a 10 minute circuit in at the end of flying when everyone else is telling me about the 300K they just did either.
Decisions, decisions.