Lcs:
Since you reply was directed to me. Here goes…
Previous point;
“...consequently there were many hoops to jump through comparatively. I think most clubs will follow that pattern closer than not. Then they will come here and talk about the falling AMA numbers and declining interest in the hobby…go figure.”
Thanks! You proved my point.
Yes, most clubs lack what it takes to truly advance an ever greater hobby base. You are part of one of those. I think if you truly desired you might could make your site at least electric powered friendly or even better yet...who knows... but alas you probably have what you want in a flying site or you would make a change one way or another...no escaping the truth no matter what you understand.
Truth
may be Truth, but BUSINESS is BUSINESS.
While I have worked for years promoting the sport of model aviation, I also understand the BUSINESS of that promotion. For example, when I bought 100 acres of prime farmland, and sold 30 acres to the RC club at same price I paid, that was PROMOTION of the Hobby/Sport. When I held their mortgage, that was BUSINESS. I instituted a Deed Restriction prohibiting any full scale man-carrying machine operation on the facility
without my permission each and every time such might happen. That was BUSINESS. In fact, early on, a group decided they would join the club and use it for those parachute engine powered things, whatever you call them. When one, not knowing my position, started talking to me about such, and I informed him of the Deed Restriction, he really went ballistic with a few choice words of anyone that would think of such. When he was informed that he was talking to the "one", then there was no more talk. That was BUSINESS that kept a group from trying to take over the club with the possibility of eliminating "model" airplanes. [
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So, all you great HOBBY PROMOTERS go out and get all these economically deprived PPM groups into your club. Then a few will maneuver (maybe become full voting members) get on the Club's Board, and first thing you know, those who you so kindly took under your wing, will be the bosses and YOU will be voted out onto the street as your good field will be restricted to the small electrics qualified under the PPP. That too is BUSINESS for those that let emotion for the "underprivileged" overrule good business practices.
Personally I admire electrics. That is NOT the problem under discussion here. However, I don't admire social programs designed by someone else, especially if I have to pay for, administrate, and/or manage them. Just remember those statements, "We're the IRS / FAA, and we come to HELP YOU!" [:'(] So, go ahead and do as you think best, however if in a few years you find yourself on the outside, looking in, well then that will be your doings.
