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T92 Mason, Texas.  I think there is an active club near Boerne, Texas 
about 60 miles south of here.  I don't know if he has a rating or not. 
I have a glider CFI but it has been a lot of years since I instructed in 
gliders.  The only time I launched from a winch was in the late 80s when 
we were in London on a trip and went out to the London Gliding Club.  It 
was a cold, windy and overcast day so there wasn't much soaring, a 
little ridge lift though.  We used to do a lot of auto tows in 
California, both from the airport gliding school where I worked and off 
of a dry lake in the desert.  Those were fun days!  I've got about 400 
hours in gliders but almost all of it was before 1980.  The economics of 
a gliding school using aero tow is probably never going to work again. 
Auto tow requires at least a mile or more of tow to be effective.  The 
dry lake was perfect but not conducive to a commercial operation.  A 
private airport with a winch would be the hot setup.

knute...

On 5/19/22 15:11, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2022 14:51:44 -0500, Knute Johnson wrote:
> 
>> I've got a friend talking about getting a glider and he's got a wife and
>> a Maule that could tow it :-).  We'll see.  The local airport would be
>> perfect for soaring.  There is almost no traffic.  We are always
>> surprised when we see an airplane on the ramp.
>>
> Where is your local airport?
> 
> Where would he go to get his glider rating? From the comments in
> rec.aviation.soaring that can be a real issue in some parts. I'm well-off
> here as there are at least two gliding clubs within reasonable gliding
> range and both offer winch launches as well as aero towing. I love
> winching: its fun, quick (35 secs from start to 1400ft), and a lot cheaper
> than an aero tow.
> 
> 
>