Bernie,
you are obviously much younger than most of us to be talking in
terms
of organizing grand parents; most of us are either Grand Parents, or of Grand
Parenting
age.
Personally I can't wait to retire and become a "Gliding Bum" get to more camps
and comps, do a lot more glider flying and meeting more of you.
Stuart FERGUSON
Phone - 0419 797508
On 13/11/2011, at 11:13, "Bernie & Sue" <size...@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> I think a lot of people are missing the point about the calender.
>
> As far as I know, most if not all comps & training camps for next season are
> already known, yet they do not appear on the GFA website calender, WHY ?
> It only needs to be a tag which links to the club website containing the
> details.
>
> It takes a long time to organise holidays for yourself, re-organise work
> shedules or holidays for your wife & get the grandparents etc organised so
> that they can help out with getting kids on/off buses or to after school
> events & activities.
> At the moment it would seem as though the events calender is organised by a
> person who is single with no dependants, no work, someone who can jump up &
> go off to a comp at any time.
>
> While I'm at it, can we have a calender that is layed out for the whole
> season so that all comps & camps are shown. (Not one month only).
> With this type of calender anyone can see at a glance what events are on at
> any time throughout the season, I have provided an example as this is how the
> aero model guys do their calenders. They also have mutiple
> comps/training/events on at anyone time, yet they can show this for a whole
> season, well in advance of that season, on one calender, why cann't we ?
>
> If events clash, so be it, choose the one's you want to attend, I'm sure that
> clashes are avoided as best is possible.
>
> If today we could see that a clash occurs in the 2011/2012 season, there
> would be time to re-organise, it may be to late come next December to do
> anything.
>
> Being organised doesn't just happen, it's needs to be planned for.
>
> Cheers.
> Bernie.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tim Shirley
> To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Calender of Gliding Events
>
> Mike,
>
> The NCC (National Competition Committee) actually still exists - they just
> dropped a "C" somewhere along the line in recognition of the fact that they
> deal with a lot more than just "Co-ordination". Ross McLean is the current
> chair.
>
> The NCC and its predecessor is responsible for scheduling and rules of
> National competition. It has never had jurisdiction over State Associations
> or clubs. Regardless of what NCC decided, a State Association can (and
> sometimes does) schedule a competition in conflict with a Nationals and so
> can a club. South Australia is holding an event in conflict with the Club
> Class Nationals in January, as well as Horsham clashing with the multiclass.
> And it was always thus, though of course scheduling was a bit easier when we
> had only one Nationals and not three.
>
> It's a Federation, just like Australia :) And the dark ages were only dark
> to those who lacked a torch and some L-ion batteries.
>
> In this setup, the wonder is not that there are clashes but that there are so
> few. There are too many events and too few weeks, and at least in the case
> of Nationals very few places and people capable and willing to host them.
>
> What is pleasing is that there seems to be a lot of customers for gliding
> events of all types at present. It's probably better to have this problem
> than the other one.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>
> tra dire e fare c'è mezzo il mare
>
>
> On 12/11/2011 10:09, Mike Borgelt wrote:
>>
>> At 08:10 PM 11/11/2011, you wrote:
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>>> Mike – we already have there here in Canberra ;)
>>>
>>
>>
>> Once upon a time there was a thing called the NCCC National Competitions
>> Co-ordinating Committee.
>>
>> These contests require sanction by the GFA IIRC.
>>
>> So in about April everyone running a contest puts in their bids for time
>> slots and the NCCC then tries to minimise the conflicts. Some of the
>> conflicts aren't that important eg WA State contest and any Nationals as few
>> WA pilots go to Nationals.
>>
>> You could move this process 12 months earlier if necessary to aloow time for
>> annual leave applications etc.
>>
>> A Dark Age is when you not only don't know how to do things but you've
>> forgotten you ever knew.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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