HEY DAREN....I'm raising my hand to say that our "rebel flying club" or whatever other name the "official clubs" are calling us this week have recently turned out 5 new RC pilots that are going to continue in the hobby. (mostly because we actually paid attention to them on the buddy box)
With that said:
We have no president, club marshall, etc, but turn out more pilots (well lately 5 us to 0 them) than all the other clubs in the area....there are three. Oh and I'm talking competent, you'd be amazed how well they fly pilots. We've also gone from 4 or 5 of us out there flying to around 35. Heck I had to take off my shoes to count as many airplanes as we had last Sunday, and with no rules or by-laws, etc we never had more than 4 planes up at once and everyone got to fly pretty much their gallon of fuel. (gets kinda hot bout the time the gallon is gone) Now how hard was that? See unlike alot of the clubs people don't have to be in our "click" to fit in and be properly trained. Alot of clubs aren't doing much for the hobby.... read the posts. Most of the clubs want only certain people flying there. Its a rampid disease up here. Don't get me wrong I've talked with alot of people around the world that have clubs that are doing amazing things for the hobby. I've seen way too many "Club member flight instructors" too busy with their socializing and morning coffee to watch the plane the student is flying until after it leaves a divot.
My question is.....If there were a new organization, would it be offensive to your personal pride in the status you have with all your club positions?