Yes Emilis, I agree. The ones in our district that have left have moved onto other forms of sport/entertainment. Some left due to previous conflicts with in the club and those that I have spoken to haven’t been keen to rejoin while those conflicts could still be present. Marriage, emerging business and growing families take a few, then 20+ years later could be in a position to re join, as I did after a space of some 30 years, but I was nearing 60 and had lost the passion for serious competition and X-country flying, but do enjoy the friendship and local soaring but my interest has now drifted towards RA Aus. I can claim success to getting a least one pilot back into gliding who gave up years ago as his club being a bit more commercial, over bureaucratic, reasonably expensive flying etc, when he moved to our area just by accident , while towing a glider trailer, he asked me a bit about it, then the conversation went to our club, which is very low on formal structure ( no lawers, doctors and accountants on committees) just country folk, and our flying costs about half what he had paid previously. As I tried to put forward in my post, that our small club, has a problem for the future survival , and we don't have an answer to succession within the club.
Peter B From: emillis prelgauskas Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 2:08 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Membership- GFA- clubs future survival The point that has been made in other forums is that - the gain of a new member does not equal - the loss of an existing member. Because the former needs support, mentoring and encouragement whereas the latter needs respect and encouragement but delivers knowledge and competencies. Hence I suspect the emphasis on getting past pilots to re-engage. If we aim at all new ab initios, the workload will kill off the last of the competency resources, particularly in small clubs, thereby hastening their demise. Emilis On 27 Feb 2017, at 11:02 am, Peter Brookman <peter.brook...@bigpond.com> wrote: <snip> This is more a statement of situation that I would feel there are other clubs in similar situation. Peter B -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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