Its to bad that you have had that kind of experience. If I may ask, did you !QUOT!preflight!QUOT! the club before you joined? I do that everywhere I go so I can get the fill of what the other pilots are like. If I don't get a response when I ask a question or if they don't invite me to fly then I don't join. I don't want to belong to a flying club where you are not a welcome flier. Heck, when I was in Florida, the club that I flew at didn't even require you to join. You just needed to have AMA. If you joined though, you got the keys to get in the gate, access to the coffee pot, etc..... They were by far the best bunch of guys (pilots) that I have ever been around. They would pretty much give you the shirt off thier back to help if you needed it.

Good luck manateemedia!