AOPA is not a company, and we’re not employees. We are members, and the board is supposed to represent us. There can be no secrets - AOPA is not in competition with another company, there aren’t trade secrets to protect, none of that.
I think they'll know why. I just let mine expire by turning off auto-renewal. It was due to expire soon after this whole brouhaha started.
Oh, so you don’t vote for the board members?
Only in the abstract. The nominating committee, which consists of existing board members, propose candidates. The only mechanism to vote is A; attend the annual meeting or B; assign a proxy to someone else, who attends the meeting. Read the minutes of the last member meeting, which by the way, lasted for 15 minutes. No ballot is sent to the membership to allow voting.
yep, i did
Well, in my experience, a good secretary wields a lot of power. Especially when working for lazy bosses.
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Save AOPA... Lol
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Interesting article. If their sourcees are accurate, I'm quite surprised only 2000 members quit and 6000 registered a complaint. I'm also surprised board members are quitting over those numbers.
Not surprising to me - (the numbers). The ratio of people who intend to do something vs actually do it, is pretty high. 6,000 complaints is a huge number against a 200k organization. Also, the decline in membership over time is another message things aren't working the way they should
Good point. That might be the number that "renounced" their membership. The interesting data would be year over year membership, although I doubt we'll ever see that. It would also have to be taken in light of the membership attrition they were already experiencing before this kerfuffle.
If a couple of board members are resigning, I'd bet it's because they don't want to be associated with the organization after the noise about the lack of member representation that came up after the president being fired. And I'd bet that those resigning were just on there to support what they thought was a good cause, that they weren't all that active, and they don't need the stress. Walking out farther onto a limb with absolutely know knowledge to back me up, the ones left might not have any incentive or desire to leave. But there's an 85% chance I'm completely wrong, because I've made all this up out of thin air...including that percentage
As an aside... I'm enjoying avbrief and all the contributers Russ has had including @wanttaja
I don't think that 2,000 number is done rising. How many people are still a member but won't be when it's time to renew?
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There's a 'contact us' link at the bottom right. I wrote a scathing indictment of the AOPA, and if these people are some kind of link to mgmt at AOPA I hope they get flooded with AOPA complaints. It says 'sign up' but I didn't put a valid email in and the message was accepted.
There’s nothing that prevents you from canceling a life membership. It might even get more notice than canceling an annual membership.
I would do that with the NRA but I depend on them for my classification card for small bore silhouette matches even though they've gotten down to one person that does all silhouette. Not for this thread but it's another organization that has lost touch with its members and mission.
43.7% of the time, 71.2% of all percentages are made up on the spot, and are only 50% correct.
Not to get off track, but recently some reformers were able to get on the board over there and have started making some needed changes. Staying is the only real option in that regard as places to shoot, especially outdoors, are very limited in my area. I also figure if they can start turning things around over at NRA, the same can be done at AOPA. I've got 6 months left on my membership and I plan making any effort possible to try and at least get the process of fixing it started. It took years for the organization to get to this point and may take as long to get it back to a place where it's at least acceptable to us as pilots.
