SAA v EAA?

I jsut picked this up on another group. Comments?


" Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 01:19:00 -0000
From: "Nicholas Cafarelli"
Subject: SAA may go away

I received the message below and thought I should share it with the group.

An example of the information available from the SAA is at this link:

http://www.sportaviation.org/magazin...mer/canopy.pdf

Here is the message which implies the SAA may disappear:

Message: 1
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 18:21:44 -0000
From: "Patrick Panzera"
Subject: SAA

I'm sorry if you receive multiple copies of this, as I'm sending this
out to every e-mail list I belong to.
I BEG that you do likewise, as there is a real concern here. This is
not spam nor any form of chain letter.

I belong to several Experimental Aviation e-mail lists and have,
throughout the years, heard a common complaint that the EAA is
not supporting Experimental Aviation like we would expect it to.

But there is another organization out there, the SAA, that IS doing
as EAA use to do. Like the EAA, the SAA was founded by Paul Poberezny
(who is currently the President), and is a "grass roots" experimental
aviation resource.

http://www.sportaviation.org/

Over the past weekend I heard a rumor that they might be shutting
down, due to lack of interest.

I sent them an e-mail and here's part of the reply:
(my question was specific to renewal)

"The Board will be meeting next month to determine the future
direction of the organization. Until that final decision has been
made, we have elected not to accept any renewals for 2006."

So if I may be so bold, it's time for us to collectively to PUT-UP OR
SHUT THE HECK UP!

If you are a current member, please send a letter of support and
recruit 5 new members, today!

If you are NOT a member, then BECOME ONE!!! RIGHT NOW!!! There's no
excuse.

The infrastructure is in place. The staff is on-board. Everything is
in place for the SAA to be everything you want or need it to be. The
ONLY thing lacking is YOUR SUPPORT!.

Without your support, SAA may be gone, soon. Although I'm a loyal
member of the EAA and feel that the direction they are taking is
beneficial to general aviation as well as sport aviation and SP/LSA
(and they certainly have my support with all of that), their return
to grass-roots Experimental Aviation is just not going to happen, no
matter how many letters we send.

If we want to belong to an organization that's dedicated to people
like you, building stuff with your own hands, in your own garage,
even if it's just dreaming about taking on such a project, it's time
to stop complaining about the EAA and actually DO SOMETHING!!!

Pat"



Dan D.