For my money, the biggest piece of news was a discussion
in the club and chapters meeting.

The users' fees is a really big threat this time and
the AOPA officer who made the presentation did a good
job of pointing out that traffic reporting, angel flights,
police helicoptering, hospital helicoptering, crop
dusting, and all sorts of other flying outside military/airline
aviation will be drastically affected and that all
of this will have huge effect on the non-flying public.

Get ready to bombard senators and representatives with
a huge letter campaign a few weeks before voting on
this issue takes place!

At 19:42 11 February 2007, Bumper wrote:
I just got back to Nevada from the convention at 1AM
this morning. It was
sure good to see so many friends, soaring people, gliders
and stuff - - best
part seeing so many friends!.

I know Kempton Izuno will be writing a piece on the
convention, along with
video and pics. Since I'm still tired, and in no way
could I ever compete
with Kemp's writing style . . . I'll wait for his input
(grin).

all the best,

bumper
wrote in message
roups.com...
As I was unable to attend, does anyone have an update
on the SSA
convention? How did it all go? How was attendance?
How were the
seminars and of course, was there any 'breaking news'
on new
equipment, software, sailplanes, etc?
Thanks - Renny Rozzoni