"Stewart Kissel" wrote in
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It sounds like the efforts to remove some dead wood
and inject new life into the convention worked well.

Jim Skydell's demand that speakers come up with new material seems to have
worked very well.


Part 2 of my question...What sort of recruiting efforts
to attract new members?

The SSA had a booth at the model airplane AMA (Academy of Model Aeronautics)
convention that attracted a lot of attention. The AMA was also at the
Ontario Convention Center but a couple of weeks earlier than the SSA. I
suspect that a lot of the non-SSA traffic at the SSA convention was from
this source.

There was a simulator?

Sky Sailing had a Grob 103 cockpit rigged up with PC controls (stick, pedals
and spoiler) that operated the X-Plane simulator. The sim ran an LCD panel
in the cockpit with instruments and a projector with forward outside view.
The person in the cockpit seemed to be having a lot of fun. Some observers
watching from outside got airsick.

Any other efforts specifically targeting new members?

There were a couple of roundtable seminars on this subject. I didn't go
since I had other obligations. My talk was on winch launch to reduce
training costs for newcomers.

Bill Daniels