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Thread: [Acro] Re: WAC/AWAC - Are you interested

Message: [Acro] Re: WAC/AWAC - Are you interested

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From: jeffery at texas.net

Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 21:42:18 UTC

Message:

  The IAC as an organizing and sanctioning body devotes a fair amount of its 
resources each year to the issue of world competition.  Not just the process by 
which team members are selected, but also by other means of direct and indirect 
support.  If our elected leadership, employees' or volunteer's time is spent on 
related issues, or annual IAC dues are used in some capacity to this end, then 
we all have a vested interest in the process, all 5800 of us.  (The actual 
number of competing pilots to whom this topic is germane I think is closer to 
400.)  The WAC and AWAC teams represent our highest level of achievement in 
this country.  While I'm not much of a proponent for nationalistic drum 
banging, I don't see how I can be involved in a sport centered around 
competition leading up to the international level without caring about how 
those that will represent me are selected.  Of course, if I ever were to aspire 
someday for a team spot (hah!), the topic would be of paramount interest to 
me.  Regardless, I am very interested in making sure that our leadership takes 
its cues from and represents the wishes of its constituency.

Jeffery Poehlmann


> To all,
> 
> This has been an interesting thread, and there are a variety of
> conversations going on both via the exploder and privately.  One of the
> issues that is being repeated by several people is that there is no
> interest in WAC/AWAC, and that this subject is irrelevant to 5,770
> members and relevant to only about 30.  These are the commonly quoted
> numbers.
> 
> I am of the opinion that a far greater proportion of both the general
> membership and the usual competitor suspects is interested in how we go
> about our business, and the results we get for it.  Many of you haven't
> commented for your own reasons, but would you take the time to at least
> voice here or directly to Rob Dorsey whether or not you could give a
> flip about the whole thing.  Among other things, do you as a competitor
> have any hope or dream of earning a spot on any team ever?  If the
> answer is largely "no", then this sort of issue probably doesn't deserve
> a major priority from your elected leadership.  They need to know what
> you think.
> 
> Don P.
> 
> 

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