My 2c.
If a change does not get made to the constitution all corporate knowledge will
be lost by mandate every 2 years, (Thats Bad).
Is the proposed alternative the right one, i am not sure of that either, i
suggest that the President and VP should be rotated regularly just like the
quote "Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for
the same reason."
Other than that i believe in the big picture the GFA provide a very reasonable
service to the greater membership and non members should either join or produce
an alternative that is not stolen from the GFA (now i would like to see the
gasbags actually do that).
> Coming from one of the very few anonymous posters on this group, that
> really is funny. Going to tell us who you really are?
I agree its a bit weak posting anonymous, like being a little bit pregnant.
Have your say for god sake.
> Now go and explore the archive and see what I've written for
> alternative courses of action in the past. There's plenty of material.
That may take a royal enquiery!!
> Gliding is dying. I know of entire gliding clubs that had to cease
> operations because of GFA rules. Having supervision and a CFI is NOT
> a CASA requirement. One senior CASA person I spoke to about this
> could not understand why GFA would make this a requirement.
Gliding is in decline due to many influences like cost, other alternatives like
RAA and social presures that were not about 20 years ago, to blame it on the
GFA's policies and structure is very simplistic.
> CASA itself offered a way out a few years ago but the proposal was
> terminated with extreme prejudice by the GFA. I've raised this on
> numerous occasions here but nobody has been game to say why. The
> proposal would not have prevented the GFA operating exactly as it
> does today for those who wanted that.
The reasons the GFA resisted the CASA alternative are based on non publisised
arguments that i should not go into, needles to say some want to have their
cake and eat it also.
Maybe suporting the organisation that suports your wants would make things seem
more "fair and democratic"?
> Most of the posters here who are happy with the way things are see
> their own club and maybe go to the odd contest. I communicate with
> people from all over the country and internationally re the state of
> the sport. It has been an ugly picture for a long time with Australia
> one of the worst. We'll see how many glider manufacturers are left in 5 years.
Obviously you dont speak with the same people i do, the only common thread is
that gliding is in some decline in some areas, the why and how long may change.
Keep in mind at all times, change is inevitable, you can embrace it and also
change (learn) or fear it and throw stones (witch hunting i think they called
it).
If you truly disagree with the state of things do something about it and get
involved, working to find solutions is always harder than sitting at a computer
complaining without puting forward benificial options. There are defined paths
to take for a reason, anarchy is a show on foxtel.
Mark Rowe.
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