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On Feb 13, 8:00 pm, "Richard" wrote:
I thought the displays, the gliders and the talks were excellent, but
as a vendor I was dissapointed with the attendence numbers.

The rumor was floating around that after the 2008 convention, the
Convention would be every two years.

Anyone have thoughts on this idea? Will the SSA publish the
attendence figures?

Richardwww.craggyaero.com

On Feb 11, 9:00 am, wrote:

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

I've heard that as well. Too bad really, I enjoy seeing friends every
year.

IMO if they would lower the cost for the thing they would draw a lot
more people. That is the single biggest thing that holds me back.
Usually I am able to secure a free airplane ride to wherever the
convention is and crash in someones hotel room or a friends house.

The 50 dollar suppers are great to attend, but dang, 50 bucks is
usually what I budget for more than a weeks worth of eating, not one
meal. In the past, when astronauts have been speaking, ive swallowed
the cost. not this year.

-Broke College Kid, CFI

SSA board of directors discussed this at the convention. SSA is going to
go with the convention every other year, starting AFTER the Albuquerque
convention and to fall on years when the Europeans are not having their
big sport aviation convention. This is to make life easier on the
vendors in the U.S. and abroad.

It is likely that an off year meeting of some sort will be held, maybe
with limited vendor participation, or not (I need my notes from the BOD
meeting to remember correctly). The off year meeting will consist of
presentations and may be called, get this, "Soaring Symposia" after the
famous Ed Byars/Bill Holbrook symposia (as suggested by Cindy Brickner).
I think this would be a wonderful idea.

SSA'ers can contact their regional directors for more information. I
would also urge SSA'ers to go to the SSA website and subscribe to the
SSA email news updates. If all 12k members were subscribed, it would
save the organization many thousands of dollars in mailing costs. SSA is
very judicious about sending these out, so don't worry about a bunch of
crap in your inbox. Here's the url to subscribe:

http://www.ssa.org/members/enewsletter/enewsletter.asp