At 08:38 AM 18/12/05 +1100, you wrote:
> Terry Roake's report of Dec 16th mentions Mergers in the following way:
> MERGERS DO NOT SOLVE CLUB PROBLEMS -
>Marco Dohmen (Germany) has completed an in depth study on the merger
>of clubs as a possible solution to gliding's present problems.
>Stefanie Becker has taken the research even further and according to
>her, mergers bring only short term relief. Gliding needs
>re-organising lifting itself into the 21st century. Gliding does
>little to help itself!
I'd take John Roake's Ramblings with a grain of salt until you read the
original article.
Not everything in them is necessarily 100%.
In the Australian setup only 1 in 10000 residents flys gliders. If you
figure a club needs 10 members to be viable under the present setup of
every club a training organisation, you can't on average have a gliding
club unless you have a population of 100,000 to draw on. Kind of limits the
options doesn't it?
Emilis is right - there are many glidings but we have a national body
determined to force only one model on everyone. Even you guys at Tocumwal
have a notional club to belong to. Why?
The latest idiocy from the rocket scientists at GFA exec is the idea of a
"GFA Club". Why not look at RAAus? They only have to belong to their
national body and only belong to a club if it is convenient and/or they
want to. The rest just own aircraft and go flying from whatever paddock or
airfield is nearby. Several operate out of the Toowoomba airport which is
Council owned.
Mike
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