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Chuck,
Here are some ‘stream of consciousness’
thoughts about flyins.
A bunch of years ago, in
I’ve come to conclude that the most
important thing for an active group (state or regional) is a newsletter.
It doesn’t take anything fancy, just a page of info that the “editor”
collects and dates and information about get-togethers. $5/year can cover
the cost of mailing to those who don’t have e-mail. For those with
e-mail, the cost is zero.
For a number of years, we had a once a
year regional fly-in that was overnight. We invited the neighboring
states and it didn’t matter if they were technically in a different
region of the EOC – we didn’t care nor did they.
We had one or two in
The main activity was hanging out, eating
dinner and talking, having a safety seminar sometimes, and talking.
It helps to have a major draw but it’s
not necessary. We had Fred and Dorothy Weick at one or more of these and
that certainly brought people from farther away. I don’t know who
you might want as a “personality” but you might think on it.
Looking at the map, your airport near West
Ossipee, NH, is pretty central to the region if you count all of
How about
Flying over the water to
We rented bicycles and rode around for a
while.
Coupers seem to come to flyins better when
accommodation is affordable. Though many are rich, many of us are not.
For such a large region, you might start
with just one to three regional events a year.
Skip or the regional EOC director should
be able to get the list of members for you. You can get them out of the
last EOC directory, usually published in January. Send them each a
note. You can save a lot on postage and paper by e-mailing all those with
e-mail listed in the directory. Perhaps you could use read receipt
requested since you don’t know if their addresses are good or in
use. Then you could paper-mail those who didn’t respond to the
e-mail.
If it’s a camping airport, you can
check for nearby restaurants or maybe have someone cater out hamburgers, etc.
For a while, in
Nevertheless, attendance did drop off to
the point we started cutting back on the frequency of events.
Anyway, there are some thoughts about
flyins. What do you others think?
Ed Burkhead
http://edburkhead.com
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