Club Membership Fees & the end of Glasgow Flying Club ? (Merged)

[Mike Cross]

Ah!!!

For one moment I thought you meant it was the bar that was open "even after licencing hours"

Mike

[Genghis the Engineer]

Surely for a private club there aren't any such thing as bar licencing hours?

G

[Flap40]

Drive up the road to Perth where it is £50

[englishal]

Last time I paid Bournemouth, it was £45 per year, rental was a reasonable wet rate, and landing / approaches were included!

Can't beat them since Cabair buggered off.......

[Yorks.ppl]

£108 flying membership at sherburn.
PA28 cadet £79 per hr. Warrior £82 per hr.
helpfull/friendly staff
Excelent value all round, very glad I moved there.

[Kolibear]

Cumbernauld seem to be getting a bit of a bashing recently, this is the third post in a week.

[Say again s l o w l y]

Koli, this thread isn't about Cumbernauld, rather about a club at a certain large airfield down the road.

[Captain101]

Check out the new club at Cardiff.
£300 for the first year + indemnity + airside pass about £360 total -ouch.

It does however drop to £100/yr after your first year.

[JetGFC]

From what I can gather about other Clubs and their facilities, we should be paying 10p and a packet of fags, , I don’t think a tatty old portacabin that smells of bad breath and feet really counts as facilities.

As for me giving Cumbernauld a hard time, as I am not a member of that club I wouldn’t know what is going on there and couldn’t possibly comment on their situation. We are 17 miles away ( a bit of Glasgow bashing is what I am doing )

[Flik Roll]

I pay a tenner.






















But then stick the membership fees on for a certain flying club that I have to pay as well

[MLS-12D]

I don't believe that members of a club can be liable for debts, acts or omissions of a club commitee.

It depends on whether or not the club is incorporated.

In certain circumstances, a member of an uncorporated association can indeed be held personally liable for the liabilities of that association: which at common law has no legal existance apart from its members, and therefore can neither sue nor be sued in its own right. As such, an unincorporated club is merely an aggregate of individuals, with many characteristics of a business partnership.

In some jurisdictions (particularly individual American states), the common law principle has been modified by legislation intended to protect members of small clubs. To the best of my knowledge this is not currently the case in England and Wales, although I stand to be corrected.

[APRIANA]

I just go there to fly - ignore most of the folk, well at least those who talk drivel. With landing fees going up again and less aircraft, depending on the AGM, I may well take my business elsewhere.

There are so many hidden agendas at the club, folk trying to get you to side with them and under mind the abilities of other instructors.

If it is the case that members will be held financially liable due to the Committees mistakes I suggest you should just walk. Give no reason. It might give them a taste of what they are dishing out.

[APRIANA]

I didn't know Students received a cheaper landing rate if they paid a higher membership.

I thought they paid a cheaper membership but paid a higher a/c rental fee? Where as full members paid more membership and received cheaper a/c fees.

[Flik Roll]

Do you mean student as in student pilot or student as in Uni student?

Only student discount I have ever received was landing at Blackbushe and Lydd because I was under 18.

[APRIANA]

I mean student pilot.

[BeauMan]

I pay £60 a year membership at Mid Anglia, plus £25 contribution into the Prang Club to cover the insurance excess.

Landings at Cambridge are about £10 for a full stop, and my solo hour in the PA28 will set me back about £130 inc VAT.

I could probably fly slightly cheaper elsewhere, but the club is a friendly one, the aeroplanes are well looked after, and the, err, 'more mature' instructors are excellent.

Only thing Mid Anglia needs to make it a perfect club is a taildragger for me to play with.

[DK338]

My local Gliding Club charges..................£440 per annum, and it's a traditional self help set up with minimal overheads. If you own your own a/c you are allowed to store it, in it's trailer, for free. Woopdidoo!

[shortstripper]

Yes, but gliding clubs tend to actually be owned by their members, unlike flying clubs!

SS

[BAA EGPF]

Jet,

I fear that the proposed membership fee at GFC of £250 may in fact be cheap at the price.

In conclusion, (according to the committee) it is a privilege to fly from Glasgow International Airport, true but at what cost. As a member of GFC you are “One OF The Few), hundreds have come and gone before you. Voting with their feet they now populate other flying clubs, or gave up flying in despair.

Well Jet if don’t like what the committee and Tuesday Club are scheming behind closed doors then you can push off the same as the hoards before you or if you are bullet proof, full hardy or just feeling lucky you could always challenge their supreme authority. Well good luck at the AGM on Thursday, I fear however that nothing will change. “CLOP”

[APRIANA]

Maybe if he wants the a/c used more he could propose a package like, members guarantee, say 50hrs use per year they get the a/c for £75 / hr, rather than £98 / hr.

I doubt PIK has that much traffic to enable the Tommy any more hours down there.