At 07:09 25 April 2018, John Foster wrote:
On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 12:39:57 AM UTC-6,
wrote:
This is all cart before the horse stuff. To start a club the first
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you need to establish is a group of committed individuals with
shared
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s and sufficient funds and competences. Then, before expending
effort and
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money, you need to thing long and hard about how you are going
to train
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bers and keep attracting more new members to cover the high
drop out rate
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hat seems endemic in gliding. Then the group needs to judge
whether you
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e going to have the human and financial resources to cover all the
other
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uff involved in running a gliding operation - maintenance,
regulatory,
mana=
gement etc. Then you need a site. Then you can decide on what
hardware
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most suitable.

Thanks for your thoughts. How would you suggest I go about
finding a
"comm=
itted group of individuals with shared goals and sufficient funds
and
compe=
tences" in the middle of an Indian Reservation? What would you
suggest
wou=
ld be minimum "sufficient funds"? What would you suggest would
be a
minimu=
m of "committed individuals"? I'm interested in your thoughts
and ideas.
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I'm very excited about the potential for this, and when the time
comes to
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literally get this project off the ground, I'd like to already have a lot
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f interest in the concept in the area, and a large potential audience
to
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aw from.


Think i would want to find out why the previous soaring operation in
Kalispell folded - could be a number of reasons - but may give you
an indicator as to if a club in the area is a viable option i.e do you
have the critical mass of population to draw from? You certainly have
the weather conditions for 1000km plus flights in northern Montana.
Has someone stated earlier you may be better off forming a
syndicate of licensed pilots to buy a self launching sailplane.