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ANDREW WRIGHT wrote:
Peter My 2 cents worth. (For what its worth.) I recently saw my gliding club and the GFA spending lots of money on a radio advertising campaign with MMM. Their target audience was the 30 year old + male. The success of this campaign is yet to be determined but from what I have heard was very limited. It seems that we (The GFA) are targeting this older demographic and not the younger person. On the flip side I am (very proudly) associated with the airforce aircadets in Adelaide. My role is that of auxiliary instructor. The Adelaide flights of the RAAF ATC are overflowing with young, enthusiastic, talented and very aviation minded young people. The RAAF ATC Gliding Club based at Gawler has six or seven young boys and girls learning to fly gliders. Some of these are already asking to go cross-country. It seems we already have a good mechanism to get young people into gliding, namely the Air-cadet movement. Why don't we (The GFA) actively support this movement instead of pouring hard earned cash into commercial radio stations?My 2 cents has run out so I had better stop. Flame suit ONIn most sports it is recognised that to have continued success at the highest level that you need a strong junior base which also reflects the long term health of that sport. Great Britian junior pliots placed 1st, 2nd & 5th in Standard class and 4th and 6th in Club class. Germany was not far behind with 3rd and 4th in Standard and 1st and 3rd in Club Class. It begs the question if Great Britian can achieve this sucess at Junior level why can't Australia do the same? What is Great Britian doing at a Junior level to attract and develop elite junior pilots? What is preventing Australia developing similiar programmes and achieving the same success? This will only now serve to attract more junior pilots into gliding in Great Britian. Regards Peter RobinsonFrom: FAI - Anne-Laure Perret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], News IGC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"IGC, Information" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Winners - 3rd FAI World Junior Gliding Championship Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:57:22 +0200 Sport: Gliding Title: 3rd FAI World Junior Gliding Championship Type : World Date: 5 - 19.07.2003 Location: Nitra, Slovak Republic Final Results : Club Class 1st : Michael STREIT GER ASW 19 2nd : Peter TOFT DEN Std Cirrus 3rd : Stephan ZEMMEL GER ASW 19 Standard Class 1st : Jez HOOD GBR LS 8 2nd : Luke REBBECK GBR LS 8 3rd : Achim BESSER GER Discus 2 The full results can be found at the following address : http://events.fai.org/ FAI congratulates the Winners and thanks the Organisers of the Championship. ________________________________________________________ This is a message from the IGC News Distribution List. To modify your subscriber status for the IGC-NEWS list, check http://www.fai.org/general/subscribe.asp?list=igc-news_________________________________________________________________ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=174& referral=Hotmail_taglines_plain&URL="" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/">http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/ default.asp -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.ANDREW WRIGHT -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
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