The story I wrote 15.11.2009 " will there be a Flying Club in 2020 " did  wake some Members of the club as intented. At first , during  our next meeting 

some  members of the board  requested , that this story must be removed from the home page of the club. I  asked  the member responsible for the 

page  to remove the link to my home page. He had put the link there to increase the value of information and to get more opinions about the club. 

At the Annual  meeting 20.01.10 a group of older members of the club straigth forwardly " helped "  me to resign from the club. No eye contacts

were established - only prewritten text were read ( reminds me the Breznev style in the former Russia) .  These rather simple kind of people did not 

realise, that they had actually made me a big favour.  I was really committed to negotiate a better agreement with the Land Lord to save the Airfield. 

I had thrown all I've got  into the negotiations. Now I can let it go and forget all about it. I can read about the negotiations from the news and think SWE 

( So What Ever), who cares anyway. The heavy burden has just been removed from  my shoulders, and it will probably take some time for my back 

to recover.

What will be the lesson learned from  being a member of the club for 17 years? 

 I have to say the lesson learned will compare next to nothing! If You have nothing positive to say - then say nothing at all.

To avoid being all that negative,  I can sincerely give high notes to another finnish society, SLPS ( Finnish Search and Rescue Flying Society ).

They  keep the finnish voluntary SAR-operations going by teaching and organising the operations. People in Finland give high respect

to that kind of activity.

As a whole, Finland has about 127000 societes keeping up some kind of activity that is included in their rules. They are mostly tax-free

because they have a noble concept of activity, that will benefit finnish people. I sometimes suspect that many of these societes are kept

alive just because the members of the society ( or a club) feel  themselves  important and needed. Years go by , but some societies have 

only achieved  a lot of "important" meetings.

Anyone wants to know what I am going to do next?

First - I will relax as much as humanly possible.

Then I might seek a base membership  of another flying club - projects or chairman posts in a club will  never be considered again!

After that I am going to write more stories about real flying.

Tero

Muutettu: 31. tammikuuta 2010