TTA Cherokee Driver wrote:

"More availability" for you means "less availability" for the other
members, unless the club is going to be adding airplanes as part of this
hypothetical initiative you are proposing. If 1/3 of the members bought
this "premium" membership that, say, doubles their scheduling rights,
the other 2/3 would be seriously impacted and basically see the value of
their shares decreased.

There are two different visions in my mind for how this would work.

The first possibility involves changing from a fixed number of members (my
club has 45) to a fixed number of shares. Any given member could own one
or more shares (perhaps with an upper limit like 2 or 4 or whatever seemed
appropriate). So availablility doesn't decrease.

The second possibility is to exploit increased equity to purchase additional
aircraft. The PFC did just that recently, and it has worked out extremely
well.

The first possibility is far simpler, of course.

How about this: set up a system where members can buy and sell "points"
to/from each other. That way at least the people whose availability is
being decreased by your extra points can be compensated. Of course that
may not work because the club's fleet policy may be counting on not
everyone using all their points.

I'm not clear on how this would work, but the idea does have a nice
capitalistic appeal to me. I suppose if I'd no need for a pair of points,
I could make them available for auction. Members that had an interest
could bid.

I guess this is not too different from my "shares" idea above, except we're
permitting the sale of share fractions.

- Andrew