Bill Lee

Sounds like you are refining the 'Find a Club' utility rapidly. That's great. We have needed this kind of thing for a long time. Is there any reason that you can see that unchartered clubs (i.e. city owned sites, etc.) could not be listed? As you know, from the recent e-mail from Dave Brown about the Axiom Survey, as many as 30% of the AMA membership may be in unchartered clubs.

IF the mentors could be included in the data. how would you purpose the contact between the newcomer and the mentor be made, if you built such a utility to 'Find a Mentor'? Would you make it available on the web site, or only to the HQ staff or ??
How could the privacy concern be dealt with?

I see that you agree that the BIG kicker is getting the information in. What do you think the costs of that might be? IF such an effort were to be made, would it make sense to solicit additional information from members to create a data base for additional functions? Maybe the SIG's belonged to or venue interests? It might be nice to know, for instance, who I can fly C/L with in my area.

Recently, Bill Vail made a recommendation that a data base be put together for crash information. His example was the JR 8411 servos that were failing in heli's. I think he submitted the idea to Sandy as a safety idea. How much would it cost to have some full time people to input the types of data and to manage them so that we could use computing power to help the organization on things like mentors, safety, SIG membership and whatever else might be really useful?

Keep up the good work, Bill.

JR