Originally post from here:
http://www.rotaryforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8601&page=4
I have understood that as a leader of men you should never ask the men in your charge to do a job that you yourself wouldn't do. Lead through example. With that thought, it is obvious to even the most casual observer that all board members current or those running for election are PRA members. These men, the PRA leaders of men, are asking everyone else to become PRA members. The cost? About two tanks (12 gallons) of fuel or 2 hours of flying time. If everyone does this act this year, right now, then with the new board members in place along with seed money for development of programs I feel everyone can be very proud of the next steps of the PRA. Oh yeah, one more benefit to being a PRA member, since we all now have a stake in the game, when someone asks questions about wanting to learn to fly a gyroplane, the first thing everyone should say is "Join the PRA, there is a lot of good people and information within the organization to help make an informed decision on this sport." I will admit, I was a member last year and as of this post have not renewed my membership, however, writing this post has motivated me to “having a steak in the game” of PRA and I will be sending in my dues. Bury the past and look forward because we can never go back to the past. Life is ahead. The sacrifice is just two hours of flying time this year….not much.
Albert you have become one of my new heroes!!!
I love this site and you people!
The 1st sentence is one of the things about me that guaranteed success on most projects or businesses I'm involved with.
ALL IN is a disease in this regard and is why I volunteer my skill sets to PRA and I volunteer even when not my skill set when no one else will volunteer to it get done.
If it isn't getting done I JUST DO IT my entire life! Cannot hire a programmer? Just learn programming and do it yourself no matter how many 20 hour days it takes for years.
If you don't quite it hard to fail with your advice in the 1st sentence.
Wow and what a concept you have!!!
For two tanks of gas if you could get another
1000 people to help we would have
$42,000. to buy one and a half member gyro's. If PRA was a co-owner on the two-place with PRA it only needs about 10 to 15K to finish funding the rest of it so that would leave $27,000. Then we would have a two place trainer to start training and advertizing much sooner gaining more revenue from marketing paying for the rest of the PRA growing fleet of rotorcraft and still have 32K to 27K left to buy a single place and start building her right away and we would have two gyro's traveling the country chapter to chapter NEXT YEAR!
If others see the wisdom in your most excellent plan and will follow your example and give me and the PRA a chance to really make a difference and if I can get the BOD to take a risk to save itself.
We could really help ourselves with co-owned member gyroplanes we can all fly at all the fly-in's and teach so many new people who could never afford to fly be able to and growth like our sport has not seen since Bensen started.
His effort was for profit ours is to make the world a better and so much more fun place to be!!!
I'm going to suggest to the BOD, that it would be better to try something risky and be sued out of existence than to die from lack of any real member benefits.
If 1000 or anywhere near that number would join you Albert, and say we would like to try and be sued out of existence rather than die a slow death I think it would be difficult for the BOD to say no to the revenue if nothing else!
Every time I've rolled the dice in life I've found a way to overcome any problem that stood in our way and it as always produce a positive results.
This is such a great solution I wish I had thought of it!!
U-ROCK Albert!!
PS:
You guys put $42.00 in and I'll put whatever labor it take to make it happen and I'm already loaning PRA 31 the money and have convinced 'PRA 31 members' to share it with PRA for the good of the sport, if PRA national will just try it!
I'm going to duplicate this on the thread the explains the concept so folk in the future can read your solution too our funding! http://www.rotaryforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37756