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There is no pettiness involved in this temporary decision. Simply-put, Gene just needed to get current on his club membership. Now that he’s current, his phone number will be put back on the rides page.
Sandy has been paying her CSS club membership all these years, even though she is not a pilot. Dale has been paying his membership, even though he barely ever flies anymore (though he is hoping to get back into it soon). She volunteers her time, money & effort frequently without complaint, and that is why her number remains on the rides page.
There are many other volunteers who also pay their memberships, not expecting anything in return.
I hope everyone here knows that the club membership funds go right back into site maintenance, not into anyone’s pocket. That includes gas and maintenance for the tractor(?) “Gracie”.
Let’s all make sure that we stay current with our USHPA and CSS club memberships, and don’t forget to update your profiles with your correct USHPA numbers, so they don’t appear in red in the current members list, looking expired.
Darren is a local pilot. I let him know that he needs to renew his USHPA ASAP. He’s good on CSS membership until tomorrow, but I reminded him to renew that as well.
We still want to explore camping options, but first we need to reach out to DWR and make it very clear to them that we do not want public camping in the traditional sense, rather a CSS club members only type of overnight camping. We will let everyone know how that works out, if & when it does.
Our lease prohibits camping. The lease can be found in the club library, if anyone would like to read it. You have to be logged in to have access to the club library: DWR Lease Docs
The last communication this club has had (with one of the DWR people currently in charge, something that changes every five years or so) in regard to camping, stated that camping was not allowed. Therefore we cannot have any official club-endorsed camping at this time.
Although over the years the DWR has been very lenient with us (since we’re such well-behaved lease holders), part of the CSS board’s position is that it’s not worth risking our very inexpensive lease in exchange for camping revenue. -Officially- we should not be encouraging overnight parking at AJX.
I want to thank everyone who gave me a chance to hopefully do something positive for the club.
I’m not perfect, we may even disagree on certain topics, but I’ll do my best to listen and keep everyone in the loop about important topics regarding the future of the club.
I have no animosity toward the 2022 BOD, I’m sure they meant well and had some good ideas, we’d just like to do things a little different this year.
We hope to have more events, stay up-to-date with meeting minutes, and give members a fair opportunity to volunteer and help make AJX a nice place to fly.
Please keep in mind that the BOD is made up of pilots who love AJX. If you disagree with something we’re doing, let us know and we’ll try to address it. We don’t get paid for this, we have feelings & sometimes stressful life circumstances outside the club, so please try to be patient with us, if you can. 😅
Looking forward to a great flying season and working with you all. 😎🤘🏻
Being able to buy membership quickly via a website is a relatively new perk, so there are still a few wrinkles to work out. Having a monitor was discussed many times, but I can’t remember the exact reason why we don’t have one. Maybe someone else who knows better can chime in.
I’ll put it out there that if anyone is willing to volunteer to be a monitor on busy weekends, especially in summer, I don’t think there will be much opposition to it.
A lot of people bought the Associate membership without having a spouse or family member who was already a General member. So, instead of paying the $100-$125 yearly General membership like they were supposed to, they’d pay $50 and call it good. It got to the point where we had around 30 Associate members, of whom only like 5 were legitimate.
I don’t know exactly when it was removed from the website. It’s possible that it might still be available, but you have to prove you live in the same household as a General member.
As far as I know, the Associate membership was for spouses and family members living under the same roof, only. For example if you, or Heather, had a General membership, the other person would be able to join the club as an Associate member for half the price.
Unfortunately there was a lot of abuse of this membership by people who did not have a spouse or family member with a General membership, so there was discussion of either finding a way to make sure this rule was followed, or the Associate membership gotten rid of. There would have to be a way to verify each person as a spouse or family member of a General member.
I’m not on the Board currently, so I don’t know all the details, but that’s what I suspect happened with it. Maybe it’s just temporary until they figure out a better way to implement it on the website. 🤷♀️
XC Ranch:
AJX + XC Ranch:
March 20, 2023 at 11:35 AM in reply to: Marshall – Sat March 18 2023 – You didn’t tell me it was going to be That Good #17552One of these days we’ll learn from (some of) our mistakes. 😜
No problem! Now everyone can feel like they were there. 😄
PGs could practically land anywhere if they’re skilled enough, but HGs have more speed and sometimes require more runway. It’s harder for them to go to plan B during the last stretch. Of course there are other considerations for keeping the ranch as part of the LZ that have little to do with the landing part.
If anyone were to ask me what side I’m on, personally I just want to see this flying site preserved for decades to come. If I get the feeling that something, or someone is threatening its existence, I want to know how to stop it. The only way to figure that out is by putting all of our heads together and start brainstorming & getting the facts straight.
If we’re going to make big decisions, we need to understand all the possible consequences and have a back-up plan already in place to remedy any problems we might encounter as a result. Saying “Don’t worry! Everything will be fine! We’ll figure it out afterwards!” is not what I would call a solid back-up plan. 🤷♀️ If there is one in place, I’m not clear on those details. Where can I see it, or read about it?
Thanks for showing up! We all love this place and want to keep it going. I think that sometimes we just get a bit stuck on one solution, and maybe that’s not the right one. That’s why it’s important to talk about it with everyone before making a rash decision.
OK, now the video is available on YouTube. Took forever to upload. 😅
March 19, 2023 at 1:38 PM in reply to: Marshall – Sat March 18 2023 – You didn’t tell me it was going to be That Good #17534It was a way better day than I expected! I didn’t do anything special, late launch, but at least I got a good view out of it. 😄
I learned during flight that I brought two LEFT gloves 🤦🏼♀️ and put my K2 sleeves in back of harness where they’re useless. When I got to over 8,600ft, I headed past Pine, but by the time I got there, my hands were hurting bad from the cold. I turned back, lost altitude and when I got up to Last Chance, I was too low to catch anything good to help me stay up. I learned that 1.) I need to stop waiting so long to launch and 2.) make sure to have comfortable gear.
SportsTrackLive, March 18th 2023
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