> A few groups have melted down to where they meet once a month, push
> all of the hangar queens out on the tarmac, have a BS session, eat
> some food, roll the planes back in the hangar, and go home till next
> month.
Thanks for your reply. I know a couple of those types also. Over the many years we have struggled with the balance between the social and technical side of aviation. I can remember a club member who voiced strong objections against dues funded cash prizes for a club flying contest because the non-flying members couldn't have a chance to win. He said he thought he entered a social club for aviation enthusiasts not just a pilots club.
You have to have some of both or the wives won't come around and won't let their husbands out as much. I tend to focus on the airplanes too much. My fly-in pictures are all airplanes and hardly any people. I have to be jostled into doing the social side.
When I go to distant fly-ins on a beautiful day I get frustrated because most folks want to stand around and talk. I want to fly and go on a scenic tour of the area. We often try to do that on our club fly-ins. It's tradition from the ultralight days of getting everybody up for a mass fly around the nearby town or lake etc.
Unfortunately some folks aren't hardcore pilots like the rest of us. They are happy to own a plane, to be a pilot, fly once in a while, and socialize with other pilots. They talk the talk but don't really walk the walk. We have to accept them as well as the non-flying aviation enthusiasts who join us... so long as they support aviation.
The sad part is these are the very folks that will quit flying entirely because it isn't fun anymore or it's too much trouble. Then you hear all the typical excuses.
Some (much) of this apparent decline is due to age. We all get old and the younger generation isn't flying (especially fixed wing). The young kids now fly PPG's and they go crazy. They have no shortage of enthusiasm and bit too much recklessness.
--dan
>
> The great clubs are doing workshops, scholarship programs, young
> eagles, fly-ins, school builder's projects, and many other community
> out reach projects. My apologies if I sounded negative as that was not
> my intent.
>
> Thanks for the reply ...
>
> Dale
> N28YD
>
>
>
>
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "dangrunloh" <dgrunloh@>
>
> > <SNIP> I too have seen a lot of them wither but most weren't due to
> > overactive leadership. Some were just the opposite. No one willing
> > to lead! <SNIP>
>
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