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 wrote:
This is more a statement of situation that I would feel there are other clubs
in similar situation.
Peter B
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