Fair enough! I was in AOPA many years back and I thought they catered
more to the high performance and twin engine crowd (neither of which I
belong to). For ME, EAA is still the closest thing to the type of
flying I do. I haven't checked on AOPA recently, so maybe they have
started having more articles about Cubs, Champs, RV-4s, VPs, Quicksilver
MXs, etc.

Scott

Matt Whiting wrote:

Scott wrote:

All who complain about Tom's wages, it sounds like jealousy. What
does the CEO of Halliburton or Enron make? I BET it's more than
$188K. I don't really see it as Tom getting rich off the backs of
volunteers, though. EAA has a lot of paid employees beside Tom. The
reason they need volunteers is because they don't have enough staff to
effectively do all the stuff needed for the annual convention. They
have to help hundreds of thousands of people in that one week. I also
don't think Tom just sits behind his desk all day looking at pretty
pictures on the wall. He does lobby for general aviation interests
and these days, I'll BET that's a full time job plus. I still miss
Paul as head of EAA as I find him MUCH more personable and genuinely
interested in us little guys, but Paul couldn't do it forever...


After being in AOPA for many years and then EAA for many years, I found
AOPA MUCH more effective in the area of lobbying so I've stuck with them
adn dropped EAA. I'm sure Boyer makes a pretty penny as well, but it
sure seems that AOPA is FAR more effective in lobbying than EAA. I just
didn't see much value from my EAA membership as opposed to AOPA.


Matt