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Jason
You say the autotug was finally killed off. This is somewhat
misleading, the company is being wound up but the tug itself is running
perfectly and has been for some time. Just ask anyone who was at the
recent QSA comps where it towed every day without a single problem.
Dave Sharples
-------Original Message-------
Date: Friday, November
09, 2001 12:40:47
Subject: Re:
[aus-soaring] GFA AGM info (was re: glider wanted)
Quoting Mike Borgelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
Do I detect a faint hint of ongoing unhappiness with the magazine
and
> its "perpetrators"?
Here comes the sigh from the list
members again ... "oh no, more magazine
bashing !"
I can
understand the sentiment of Mike's comment though - I also seem to recall
that a canopy (Arrow ?) from Benalla had likewise been sold some time
ago yet
still appears each month in the GFA Classifieds along with the
aforementioned
Hornet.
A few of my pet peeves:
There has
been a recent series of articles to do with electrics and radio on
trikes. WHY, oh WHY can't the editor and sub-editors at least agree
that maybe
we we use radios and electrics too ? These articles have a
GENERAL interest,
not just for the trike pilots, yet they (and even
the writers to some extent)
seem to like to stick their heads in the
sand and pretend they're targeting one
audience i.e. the one that
concerns THEIR discipline. With some small
editorial changes they
would be relevant to more disciplines (with appropriate
icons at the
page top) e.g. trikes with radios are like gliders (with radios !)
and
motor gliders (with both motor and radio) and maybe even paramotors (I
presume these have radios fitted ?)
If the powers that be can't
even amalgamate the magazine, then what hope did
they really have of
amalgamating GFA with HGFA ?
I am also finding the "advertorials" a
bit tedious. I mean, we all know that
Bernhard Eckey is the ASH/ASW
agent in Australia, but do we need to have cover
photos, centerfolds
and test flight reports each month ? Mike - maybe you
should write a
B2000 article, complete with sexy centrefold shots of it and
then you
wouldn't have to worry about paying for advertising ! LOL
On the
plus side, it was good to see an article on the Gloucester ridge camp -
just a bunch of ordinary club members from the grass roots of the GFA
membership having a great time. There should be more of this. And also
Cath
Conway's article on her son's experiences in a glider. That's got
me head down
writing an article about my experiences, and those of my
3rd generation gliding
5 year old son. Watch AG in the new year
!!!
> Don't forget these same people occasionally interface with
the
> government and claim to represent you.
>
> Pity
they haven't faced an election.
>
> Slightly related, has the
GFA annual meeting been held?
Yes
> Did anything
happen?
For one, the Autotug finally got killed off.
See the
November AG/Skysailor (just arrived a few days ago), where a whole
double page was devoted to names and addresses (physical and e-mail)
of those
elected for the next year - in some ways it probably could
have been covered
better on the web site (and I note that the ever
efficient GFA webmaster David
Head has done just that - THANKS DAVID
!). With the exception of those with e-
mail only accounts like Telstra
Easymail, 99.9% of those with e-mail have web
access too, and if you
want their e-mail addresses, you are far more likely to
look on the
GFA web site than digging around for the Nov 2001 AG/SS.
The AGM
and ACM Minutes appear on the GFA web site, along with my
favourite
"missing minute matters", for example
WHO moved each item ? WHO
seconded each item ?
Where can "Joe Average" get a copy of all the
reports which were submitted and
accepted by the AGM and ACM
?
Why aren't the reports and presentations always given to the
webmaster for
inclusion as part of the GFA web site ? Surely in 2001,
EVERYONE can submit an
electronic version of their report. I for one
would LOVE to see the Development
Officer's presentation as
development and growth of our Club is a key issue
that interests our
Committee.
Could we PLEASE (at Club and State level) encourage
better Minute keeping at
these meetings and more transparency through
readily available reports and
presentations on the GFA web site
?
A member kept in the dark is a cynical member - give us a bit of
transparency,
and thus a chance to know about and participate in the
process and we're more
likely to give you our trust.
> Does
anyone care?
I do - see above. I'd like to think that my $157.30
each year gets put to more
use than just the magazine, and that I have
some say in how that money is used.
Regards
Jason
Armistead
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