Thank you Richard, even though my contribution is spread over 50 years, I am still in there pitching for a future for gliding at the coal face. In the last 6 months I have - - contributed to a neighbouring club whose CFI ‘retired’ because of the ever increasing onerous impositions by GFA on these volunteer positions - I am organising a passenger day for non-gliding people on the ‘aerial excursion principle' (even though I will fork out $30 per person out of my own pocket to make it happen (yes the GFA AEF tax) - a few people know the museum and library which I run tours through for non-gliding people as a contact point for the sport (thank you Mandy for the offer of GFA assistance, but really, GFA is so far off the mark that I have to declare independence to get useful things done) and so on
So, Richard, be happy in your ignorance of the real state of the sport, continue to believe that the faffing about by the GFA actually matters. Meanwhile real people during real things will just get on with it. And to Ulrich - your years of sacrifice for the sport are held in regard by some people, who know what is really going on. Emilis On 30 Jan 2017, at 6:29 am, Richard Frawley <rjfraw...@gmail.com> wrote: > i assume most people know that gliding requires a minimum membership size to > keep the cost and freedoms we enjoy possible. > > if you have not noticed we are actually under the minimum membership for > sustainability. > > This is a problem anyone who wants reasonable continuance needs to own and > assist with. > > The general lethargy towards this problem is significant. The GFA have very > limited means due in the main to budget constraints to do much about this > issue. John with just about no resource has been doing a great job as a > volunteer. He is however frustrated by the above lethargy after 3 years in > the role. > > So, what have YOU done to assist glidings future in the last 6 months??? _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
