As Dave alluded to, we cover termination issues in the by-laws. We have a membership committee within the Board of Directors which oversees membership and any safety or other "personnel" issues. Usually, like Dave, a friendly reminder suffices. We do issue individual frequency tags (clips) to each member with a year sticker so that we know members from visitors and also helps verify that a member is current. We have a restricted visitor policy and any visitor must be a guest of a current member and that member must be with the guest.

In the 14 years I have been a member of the club we have never terminated a membership. We came close twice (and I was on the membership committee for one of those) but the issues resolved themselves when the "problems" either moved away or did not rejoin the club.

Having a "formal complaint department" (as such), it does allow a member that may have concerns about another member to at least bring it to the attention of the club. Some members just do not want to get face-to-face with someone and do not feel comfortable doing so. We do not have a formal safety officer as such.

Seems to be working for us (so far). However, what we are seeing more of at our field is an increasing instance of "rude" and/or inattentive fliers and those that just don't seem to exercise good old common sense. Again, so far we have been able to deal with these usually by, as Dave calls it, a "kind and respectful" reminder.

Dan