Axiom raises some interesting issues.
About time someone wrote a history of AOPA. I confess to being
singularly ignorant as to what happened in the early years.
Post 1997 there has been a 10% annual decline in AOPA membership. I guess that the AirServices movements is a reasonable barometer of GA health and this has been
relatively flat for some years. My view is that AOPA has suffered a decline well beyond what is going on in the industry but the reasons are more complex and subject to debate.
Following the NRMA member revolt, AOPA members may become
more demanding of their elected committee, particularly with prudential governance.
Other than replacing the whole board, how can members possibly know who are the good guys? At the moment though I am optimistic that common sense will prevail and
the whacko element on the board will be kept under control.
Russell