The LAA forum is a window to the organisation. They should get a professional moderator/designer to kick some life into it and get it working as a forum that people go back to because it's informative, fun to use, and makes people feel part of a community. At the moment, it looks amateurish and has nothing to draw people back to it - making it sticky as web designers call it.
I'm an LAA member and used their coaching scheme to get my tailwheel rating - it does a lot of good work. But the forum design and operation lets it down.