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I think I covered that possibility. Not sinister, but I'm curious about the tax technicalities. I'm only somewhat familiar with for-profit corporations. If the service provider (or someone else) is subsidizing or contributing several thousand dollars a year in equivalent expenses, they might...

I like to know who funds and controls the services I use a lot and what motivates them. I thought I'd share what I know in case others were curious. I had looked up some of the info a few years ago and don't recall whether I ever shared it then. It isn't like PoA management volunteers...

Creating this thread couldn't help but insult you and other MC members. So no apology needed. But I appreciate it. I also appreciate John's character reference. Thank you John. Um, no fan. But Campbell does make for interesting gossip. The world doesn't really need that sort of thing and the...

"Nonprofits are not actually owned by anyone and therefore cannot be sold." From: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/nonprofit-basics-29948.html "While there is no outright ownership, there is control. One of the fundamental questions I ask when forming a new nonprofit corporation is how...

I won that poll unfair and square. They'd get a lot of people (such as myself) willing to contribute money, time, and effort. They have not asked in the time I've been a member. Unlike you, I understand why they don't do that and you just make yourself look foolish every time you post the same...

Actually - I would expect any hardware may be owned by the non-profit corporation, though I suppose it could be loaned to it. And since there are no owners of a non-profit, none of the MC could claim title to any such equipment. None of the current members of the MC were founders of the board...

Age has muddled my memory - I don't recall such previous prognostications. If you find older posts by me that predict the demise of this board, I'll see about sending you a dollar for each one. But even in the post you quoted I tried to qualify my opinion. So I think you're up $0 - but you're a...

I just wouldn't be me if I was full of somebody else. Anyway, I'm no more full of myself than anyone else is full of themself.

Neither does it preclude it. I already tried to point out (and assumed it should be self-evident,) the organization's sine qua non is its members and therefore am proposing the MC membership should be elected by those who infuse it with its value. That doesn't appear to be relevant to the rules...

I'm not sure where in my OP I said any of the MC were not nice people. I merely submit that they are unresponsive to PoA members - and in fact I submit as one fact in support of that is that when someone posted a poll to Hangar Talk on whether the Spin Zone should be closed, the MC moved the...

My understanding is that there is a legal entity - either a non-profit corporation (if I recall correctly,) though maybe it is an LLC. Of course. The question is why anyone would object to requests for changes to the way it is run?

They just didn't think all that much of some of your traits. Nothing worse than that; I have dislikable traits too. I suspect the only reason you probably inferred worse from my post is because you started with belittling straw-man argument and expected something in return. You came up at a...

I'm curious - why does this thread cause you emotional distress? If it helps any, maybe think of it as a way to measure whether yet another pilot forum should be created whose management is more egalitarian? Be nice if this one would be, but I already see that some people experience...

I haven't seen you at any of the PoA fly ins I've been to, either. At least one that I had a small had in organizing. Though I have met someone who you've met personally and got spontaneously offered their opinion of you. Ahem.

There is nothing stopping me (yet) from first trying to see if enough others feel as I do and determining whether there is any possibility at all in members having some say in the way PoA is managed. Otherwise starting yet another forum whose management is directed by the members IS the...

I can only judge them according to the effect their actions on PoA have on me as a member. In that way I think I have a more objective view than you - at least a 1/21,000 view. Besides, since you've met nearly all of them you may already have some influence. I have had zero. Their...

I wrote the following in reply to a post in the "Should the SZ stay?" thread, but by the time I'd finished composing it that thread had been moved to the SZ! There is no rule in the Rules of Conduct that seems to exclude a thread such as this from Hangar Talk. If you insist on making up...

Vast in number are the things that we are either unaware of or don't use whose existence is fleeting - and therefore whose departure we care not about. But it is not a question of what things we directly use, since that question itself is among the vast number of things that others care not...

History is about to be repeated. As far as I can tell (I wasn't a member then) PoA lasted about 1 year before the need to create the Spin Zone occurred. Or maybe PoA was civil in all that time and it was the Spin Zone that has caused problems? The MC should have kept the Spin Zone open and...

Not sure where to start - here's a power-point document that explains why AoA indicators are superior not just for landing, but in virtually every phase of flight: http://www.advanced-flight-systems.com/Support/AOAsupport/AOA%20slides.ppt Basically, best angle of climb, fastest climb, best...