[Aus-soaring] BCS Crash on tonights TV

2005-12-17 Thread John O'Neill
What type of Glider? John ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] BCS Crash on tonights TV

2005-12-17 Thread Patching
M-200 Ian P - Original Message - From: John O'Neill To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 8:59 PM Subject: [Aus-soaring] BCS Crash on tonights TV What type of Glider? John

Re: [Aus-soaring] BCS Crash on tonights TV

2005-12-17 Thread John O'Neill
Thanks Ian. Is that the one thatwas at Bridge Water years ago recently owned by JK? John ---Original Message--- From: Patching Date: 12/17/05 21:19:29 To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] BCS Crash on tonights TV M-200 Ian P

Re: [Aus-soaring] BCS Crash on tonights TV

2005-12-17 Thread Patching
Yes, the only one in the country. GTG. Looks as though it will be a write off, fortunately the people OK. Ian P. - Original Message - From: John O'Neill To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 9:25 PM

Re: [Aus-soaring] Re: membership

2005-12-17 Thread Geoff Kidd
Terry Roake's report of Dec 16th mentions Mergers in the following way: MERGERS DO NOT SOLVE CLUB PROBLEMS - Marco Dohmen (Germany) has completed an in depth study on the merger of clubs as a possible solution to gliding's present problems.

Re: [Aus-soaring] When (or what) is an aerodrome..... ?

2005-12-17 Thread J Hudson
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Re: [Aus-soaring] Re: membership

2005-12-17 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 08:38 AM 18/12/05 +1100, you wrote: Terry Roake's report of Dec 16th mentions Mergers in the following way: MERGERS DO NOT SOLVECLUB PROBLEMS - Marco Dohmen (Germany) has completed an in depth study on themerger of clubs as a possible solution to

Re: [Aus-soaring] Re: membership

2005-12-17 Thread Robert Hart
Mike Borgelt wrote: The latest idiocy from the rocket scientists at GFA exec is the idea of a GFA Club. Why not look at RAAus? They only have to belong to their national body and only belong to a club if it is convenient and/or they want to. The rest just own aircraft and go flying from

Re: [Aus-soaring] Re: membership

2005-12-17 Thread mark king
Could not agree more with Mike's comments, why do we all have to belong to a club? Why can't I just join the GFA alone? To me its like saying we can't trust you to fly safely unless you join a club! If RAA pilots can be trusted to fly safely without belonging to a club why can't soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] the many glidings

2005-12-17 Thread mark king
Agree, Soaring has a terrific marketable product for a whole range of people who want to fly but I don't agree that clubs are going to thrive if there are lots of new participants. In fact you will not get the new participants if you rely on old style clubs to attract the participants. Why?

Re: [Aus-soaring] Re: membership

2005-12-17 Thread Mark Newton
mark king wrote: This gets back to what the role of the GFA is. In my view the obsession with being the regulator and keeping CASA at bay has been at the expense of what GFA should be doing which is getting out there and developing gliding on the ground. Is the USA system of the government

[Aus-soaring] GFA's role

2005-12-17 Thread Blackbird pilot
Mark said: This gets back to what the role of the GFA is. In my view the obsession with being the regulator and keeping CASA at bay has been at the expense of what GFA should be doing which is getting out there and developing gliding on the ground. I And they can't even do that right!