Crakob wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 10:01 am
i bett, if you would make a poll, most pilots would vote for an airstart.
Maybe, and it might be worth actually doing the poll, but i think most of the condor.fr pilots who organise tchintchin seem to prefer including the tow procedure as it brings some of the airfield day mood to a flying session. And I do get that.
The problem here is that its difficult to provide an alternative for people who have other preferences, like different start procedure or even slightly different time of day. Events like TchinTchin are a "natural monopoly": their popularity and heritage attracts more pilots as almost everyone prefer to fly on full rather than empty servers. So even if, for arguments sake, lets say 95% of tchintchin pilots would prefer airstart over tow, if you organise a server to cater for them, you will only get those people who hate tow procedure so much they would rather fly alone than suffer it. Ie, virtually no one.
I hope TchinTchin organizers keep that in mind. 17:30-19:00 is tchintchin time, they simply own that timeslot , and organizing a different event to cater for different preferences around that time, just isnt feasible. Nor is it even desirable, as it would split the group.