Justin, your obviously a doer. You have me in your camp also and hear, hear.
> On 16 Apr 2016, at 9:24 AM, Justin Couch <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 16/04/2016 8:19 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > >> At present GFA is setting up a system that burdens private citizens with >> unnecessary work and responsibility and nobody seems to be looking ahead >> to see if all this will be sustainable in 10 years. It is a potential >> time bomb for the sport.. > > On this, you and I are on the opposite ends of the spectrum. The whole reason > I'm getting involved in this is to get the government out of the sport as > much as possible. The more we can show that we have our ducks in a row to > show we are responsible people (including paying heed to the fact that laws > do exist and we must sometimes at least have look like we are obeying them), > the less likely we'll have a repeat of a few years ago where we had our > entire airworthiness and training system yanked from under us. The subsequent > result is having to pay tens of thousands of dollars a year just to maintain > our existing fleet - which will drive almost every club into financial ruin > and kill the sport completely in this country. > > Our old approach was extremely poor, and others called us on it. Really - we > keep all our airworthiness records in some guy's personal garage that then > burnt down?! That's beyond amateurish and CASA should take us to task on that > because internally nobody bothered. Yearning for "the good ole days" won't > make our lives better or give us more freedom. > > Besides, once again, you think "court of law" means The Government coming > after us. Very narrow minded there. There's many other ways we can end up in > that situation that doesn't involve the government - even if we gave away all > our delegations and made CASA look after us completely. > > On the aging community, I do agree there. We have a problem. My club, at > least, is doing a lot to address that. Currently I believe about 20% of our > membership is under 25. Maybe half of those guys are coming along with me on > the airworthiness trek, and I have another half a dozen "older" members (most > under 45 too) as well that will be looking to complete their Form 2 training > within the next year or so. SXGC has historically been a feeder club to the > rest of NSW - most of our members eventually leave and join more cross > country-oriented clubs. Considering ours is a club where historically the > entire fleet has been maintained by a commercial shop and I've got it to this > stage in 3 years, I think we're doing darn well at addressing that concern > about the aging community and airworthiness. > > We have a choice: we can either sit back in our rocking chairs on the porch > and complain about it, or get off our arses and make sure the rules get bent > in a way that works for our benefit rather than having rules imposed on us > that we don't like. I'm in the second camp. > > -- > Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/ > Java 3D Graphics Information http://www.j3d.org/ > LinkedIn http://au.linkedin.com/in/justincouch/ > G+ WetMorgoth > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Look through the lens, and the light breaks down into many lights. > Turn it or move it, and a new set of arrangements appears... is it > a single light or many lights, lights that one must know how to > distinguish, recognise and appreciate? Is it one light with many > frames or one frame for many lights?" -Subcomandante Marcos > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
