further on that, having been a member of the cessna pilots assn. for a
few months, since i bought my 172-c, i've found there are real serious
benifits to paying the very cheap dues. they have a staff of tech
experts, a huge database and archive, well produced monthly glossy
magazine and on and on.
seems there have been personal conflicts and affronts (about which
i know nothing and really care less) as a result of which there was
formed the other group comprised of wonderfully nice, extremely
experienced experts to be sure. no resources but excellent people as
best i can tell.

just my opinion but it seems that if the second group is wildly
successful then the first group will not be able to afford to keep up
the tech resources which would be a huge loss for cessna owners
worldwide. i don't really see that happening as we have a less than 500
person free sign-up group on one hand and a fee paid membership of
many, many thousands on the other.

it was people on this group who suggested i check out the c.p.a. when i
bought and that was excellent advice. i would strongly advise any
cessna owner to pay and participate in the cessna pilots assn. it costs
me about an hour of avgas. as long as it's free i also enjoy checking
the threads at the other group sometimes.

dan
Newps wrote:
Jose wrote:

There's a new membership-based discussion forum


I don't understand the advantage of such a forum over Usenet (except
maybe OT postings, which I can skip).

Then you're the only one. The Cessna Pilots Assoc maintains a web board
that easily gets 10 times the posts that this group gets. If there's
something you want to know about your Cessna that's the place to go.