“Its also clear that the GFA has little control over anything in all reality, except to write documents put some polices in place and hope somebody enacts them. Most everything else happens between members and the club management”
With that mindset, do you expect to get any changes to the L2 Ind Op implemented? Those on the GFA board/exec who share this opinion should stop wasting their time and step back to let someone with some enthusiasm and a more active approach to (change) management get on with it. “The good news is that there are clubs that are operating differently and showing great results. They do not appear to be constrained or crippled by the GFA as some would like to make out” These clubs tend to have very good leaders who can make things happen. They don’t have the fatalistic attitude displayed for the world to see by the posts from GFA M&D (all but the last one of which have been removed at the time I write this) and the first quote above.. Ulrich Stauss 0421 151 412 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: Aus-soaring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Frawley Sent: Tuesday, 7 February 2017 08:01 To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship? whats positive Mark is that it is recognised that most of the work that needs to done has to be at grass roots level, nothing to do with the GFA at all. Unfortunately it is a growing weakness in our culture is to blame the government (or any upstream authority) rather than assume personal responsibility. Its also clear that the GFA has little control over anything in all reality, except to write documents put some polices in place and hope somebody enacts them. Most everything else happens between members and the club management The good news is that there are clubs that are operating differently and showing great results. They do not appear to be constrained or crippled by the GFA as some would like to make out. And what is also clear its that just about nobody active on this list wants to do anything other than whinge. As an example, only one person offered to assist with the L2 ops change….(thanks Bernard) Your last point is what many people seem to do on this list, only its with the GFA as their target. Lets all please remember that the GFA is just ordinary people doing thankless volunteer jobs, generally with the interest of community foremost and trying to do the right thing within the constraints available. They are just people. As a pilot and aircraft owner, I find the whole GFA experience simple, easy and painless, works well for me and many, many others I know. As I am getting a self launcher, I do want this L2 ops situation improved and I will apply efforts towards that. On 7 Feb 2017, at 8:03 am, Mark Newton <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: On 7 Feb 2017, at 7:34 AM, Richard Frawley <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: snarkiness??? its that what exposing some reality is called? He has a job to do. He’s doing the opposite of the job. john might not be very PC and the way he expressed things could have been a little more sensitive, “PC”? “Sensitive”? Turn it up, mate, nobody asked for those things. but there was also a lot of reality in what he imparted. Looks to me like a lot of healthy discussion as one result. The same “healthy discussion” that’s been going on for at least 20 years. It’ll peter out into nothingness in due course, and the GFA will decline to do anything about it. Then something else will spark its resumption in a year or so, and the same points will be made again. This isn’t new discussion with unique insights, it’s boring, repetitive, and demoralizing to cover the same territory over and over again for decades. There is clearly appetite within the GFA membership for the outcomes that have been discussed here, but no momentum whatsoever within the hierarchy to achieve them. CFIT. I don't think he deserved such punitive and heavy handedness, and trying to gag a marketing guy of all people has to be red rag to a bull. Shuttering a core social media channel does not look that clever either. He’s a volunteer, doing a job he’s supposed to enjoy. If he isn’t enjoying it, or isn’t doing a good job of it, he should stop volunteering and hand it over to someone else. Using his platform to berate everyone else about how hopeless they are is not acceptable behavior. - mark _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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