On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:07:44 +1030, Mark Newton wrote: >Rather than tut-tutting about the fickle nature of today's youth and >deriding them as a bad investment, look a bit closer to home, and >ask whether your club's *attitude* is driving away potential new >members. >- mark >[ CFI, Adelaide Uni Gliding Club -- An entire club that's almost >exclusively populated by people which this mailing list's >participants would consider to be "youth" ]
Thank you Mark, all this is true, and then I invite you look at why AUGC doesn't today have the membership numbers and soloing rate it had in its heyday, has recently been thrown by the landowner off its airfield, is currently reliant on such resources provided by OFTTHs, and to then further anticipate what is going to happen to the club shortly with the change proposed by govt toward voluntary student union fees. Nick wrote: >I have taken many friends flying (people around my >age so sub 30), and without repeating the various words used they >all ask me >how I can stand to spend all day surrounded by old men. Thank you Nick, You may wish to comment about where are the young people with even AEI ratings willing to fill the roster or even do a stint as a professional instructor at clubs? I have offered to those young people who have tried your brand of blackmail on me to have open access to the hardware to run such an operation (I provide the airfield, gliders, winch and underpinning funds) for themselves, and have been told by them its too much work. Thank you flamers and lurkers for an excellent thread. I had a good flight today in attention getting conditions. _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
