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IMHO I don't think a club should require the intro pilot to join the club and I think the club should pay the $5.00. The rules say the intro pilot can use his own equipment as long as the instructor checks his plane carefully. The 30 day trial period is not renewable, it is not one flight only.

I think its important, if not a duty of every club to get as many new people into the sport as possible and any club that road blocks this goal with inappropriate fees and membership requirements is being petty and small minded.

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