I recently saw their rate sheet and by the time you have added on the many extras (such as the instructor and briefng fee and the way marked up landing fees) a lesson in one of thier 152s are going out at about $100 an hour MORE than other schools that have aircraft less than five years old.
The overheads there must be phenomenal. But at the end of the day it's not managers and chief this and that (and all the associated politics) that you need, it's bums on seats and happy punters. And a lot of those are moving elsewhere to sit on newer seats for a more reasonable rate.
There are some great people working at RACWA and I wish them well. But it lost it's way when they built the "Taj Mahal" and since losing the old building it's had about the same atmosphere as the Perth Domestic Terminal.
Whatever is happening there is something that seems to happen to most clubs at some time or another, the committee and the members grow apart and often this is the result of bad communication and misunderstanding, chinese whispers etc. But having a commitee is the price RACWA have to pay if they want to keep thier comfortable tax status.