I believe AOPA US achieves the results it does by having a huge staff and a proactive membership.
AOPA Aus will never be able to achieve the staffing levels of AOPA US because of the different sizes of our respective industries. Should we have more staff? You bet, can we afford more staff? Don't think so
AOPA Aus needs a proactive membership. I have the feeling from this forum and others that the Board has been isolated from the membership in the past (if this is wrong I'm sorry but its just a feeling, I wasn't there, I was chasing girls with a newly broken voice and a pimply face at the time
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The current Boards plan to have regional representatives as a link between the members and the Board/Organisation is promising.
AOPA also needs its members to start selling AOPA to others. How many AOPA members know that if you sign up 5 other people you get your membership for one year free?
Call the AOPA office and they will help you to do this (Dont call til 5th Jan, no one is home
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