It all started with pink headsets
Unfortunately you are not wrong.
That thread was when the school started pulling in students country wide instead of just relying on local students.
It is also probably the start of most of the problems that the set in place the growing stand off between the club and the school.
As I have said before the mind set and admin involved in intensive 4 week courses is quite different to servicing weekly flyers and trial flight markets. There is allot of faces coming and going who never really introduce themselves to club members and basically treat the place like a doss house.
It aids the club if the membership fee's are payed (bone of contention) and also by the fact that there are more planes available at a reduced cost. But it is also a huge pain for the members as the club does not feel or look like a club any more. And they have a raft of cheeky young ppl students who don't know or care about the club or the facilities that are available to them.
As an example. in 2008
Young student who is planning a nav ex is in the briefing room with charts spread on the table. Committee member comes in after seeing that the common room is trashed after having 10-30 people using it through the day. Now committee meeting is the same day every month since 2001 so he tells the student that he needs to move, probably quite gruffly, as he his pissed off that the common room is not very nice for members again.
As far as the student is concerned they have payed for a course and some old fart is chucking them out of the only decent place you can spread a chart out in peace in the building. And replys in an equally pissed off tone to the old fart.
Who's right and who's in the wrong doesn't really matter. You can see that a very large school hanging off a club in a building which isn't big enough will always lead to falling outs.
As for the meeting being in Perth I really don't blame them if they want to get anything productive done. If they did it in Inverness they could quite easily get 200-300 people turning each owed 150 quid and demanding it with another 50 odd who are owed significantly more with another 5-10 **** stirrers chucked in for good measure. And from having been sent to one of these meetings before. Not alot gets done apart from the administrator introducing themselves and telling the meeting what proof you need to supply as to your claim on the company and where you have to write to with this proof.
No doubt the courier will be there to print the details in the next courier. But if your owed more than 500 quid I would suggest you get to it or give someone going a letter stating they can act on your behalf in regards to the issue at the meeting just in case.