Anyone dissapointed with Oshgosh?

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(Daniel) writes:


First, EAA is a 501(c)3 corporation, i.e., charitable, tax exempt.

Charitable for tax purposes. It's a nonprofit. Doesn't mean they
can't take in more money than needed, just that they cannot disperse
it as profits, i.e. they have to spend it on the EAA. The result is
that like almost all nonprofits, the EAA has evolved into an
organization focused on & dedicated to its own itself rather than its
members. If you doubt that, look at how the EAA has grown while
homebuilding has shrunk.


Where do you come up the statement that Homebuilding has shrunk? I don't see
any signs that homebuilding in general has shrunk, only that certain areas of
homebuilding have evolved. If there is a limitation in the homebuilding area
it is the fact that fewer people seem to be getting into flying.

Where did your money go? ...

Read their IRS-990 filings (the mag only give totals). When you see
22 employees drawing salaries in excess of $50,000 excluding officers,
you start to get a clue. The 990's for the sister organizations, SnF,
the museums, etcetera read similarly.

Best advice? ...

Best advice if you're interested in experimental aviation would be to
skip EAA events & go to flyins instead.

Daniel

Do it then, but when your right to fly is revoked because the EAA and AOPA
didn't lobby to retain it, you can go to the local walkins.


Bob Reed
www.kisbuild.r-a-reed-assoc.com (KIS Builders Site)
KIS Cruiser in progress...Slow but steady progress....

"Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice,
pull down your pants and Slide on the Ice!"
(M.A.S.H. Sidney Freedman)

Do it then, but when your right to fly is revoked because the EAA and AOPA
didn't lobby to retain it, you can go to the local walkins.

That is not a job to be left to the EAA and the AOPA. That job is ours. We
should not be assisting them - THEY - should be assisting us. The next time
you overhear a discussion about those dangerous "hobby pilots" interrupt and
add some facts to the discussion. If the opportunity doesn't present it's self
bring up the subject at the lunch break gathering and spread some of our
collective wisdom around. Maybe if we take a bit more control of our own
destiny the EAA can spend more of it's time and resources on something novel -
like homebuilding.

I do as I say, but not enough. Democracy is a dangerous and repressive thing
when education is left out of the mix.