[NSRCA-discussion] CIAM Meeting Representation

[Bill's Email]

The reason I posted the EC Minutes links was so people could get a sense 
of the thought process the AMA is using to make these decisions. FAI 
participation is a tiny slice of the total AMA membership and it does 
not strike me as unreasonable that they are thinking along the lines 
they are. I may not like it, but I can see where they are coming from.

I like the NSRCA budget possibility. I know I'd happily pay $10 more per 
year knowing it was going to support the representation for FAI with any 
excess going to the Team. I don't fly FAI, and probably never will, and 
if I did would have less than no chance of making a Team. But that does 
not mean that we do not have a stake in what goes on.

That's my 2 cents worth.

Bill


On 3/12/13 5:12 PM, Atwood, Mark wrote:
> We can run off and vilify the AMA over this, but I think some of the reality is that there are soooooo many niche's in the FAI program that trying to determine how to completely support them all is financially impractical in this day and age.  Yes, we're one of the pillars, but our total participation at the FAI level is actually VERY low.  I think a total of 10 people this past cycle.  That in itself is a problem, but regardless, it become difficult for the AMA to support sending a rep for every FAI program that has 10 paying participants.    I just checked.. .we had 11 participants in 2012 and 11 in 2010.  Control line scale had about the same.
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> We should strongly consider trying to work this into the NSRCA budget in some way.  It's important to us collectively, regardless of the total number that actually pay for an FAI stamp.  They lead the program that we follow, and establish all the rules for our international competitions.  It's important that we (the NSRCA) have a voice at the table.
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> Just my $0.02
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