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Wanting to start a new glider club
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 thing= you need to establish is a group of committed individuals with shared goal= s and sufficient funds and competences. Then, before expending effort and = money, you need to thing long and hard about how you are going to train mem= bers and keep attracting more new members to cover the high drop out rate t= hat seems endemic in gliding. Then the group needs to judge whether you ar= e going to have the human and financial resources to cover all the other st= uff involved in running a gliding operation - maintenance, regulatory, mana= gement etc. Then you need a site. Then you can decide on what hardware is= 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. = I'm very excited about the potential for this, and when the time comes to = literally get this project off the ground, I'd like to already have a lot o= f interest in the concept in the area, and a large potential audience to dr= 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. |
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