Wed, Apr 01, 2009
Group Claims 28 Now on E-Mail List
ANN APRIL 1st "SPECIAL" EDITION: A small but
impassioned group of professional flight instructors has organized
to fight what it calls an elitist attitude among the directors of
SAFE, the Society of Aviation & Flight Educators.
SAFE, which itself was officially incorporated only weeks ago by
about 400 members of NAFI, the National Association of Flight
Instructors, set out to be a "member-centric" organization with
directors elected directly by members. After an organizational
meeting in Atlanta in February, SAFE announced committees were
working to develop improved programs for professional credentials
and continuing education for the flight instruction industry, while
ensuring a transparent governance process.
But 28 charter members of SAFE have already expressed
disenchantment with the new group, saying that what they really
wanted was the chance to be directors themselves. Stu Douggert,
spokesman for the group, tells ANN, "We didn't quit NAFI and give
up the cool magazine just to bow to yet another board of directors.
We will settle for nothing short of full control over our
programs."
The group is calling itself TBO-SAFE, which Douggert says stands
for "Totally Bummed-Out Skeptics Asking For Everything," and plans
an organizational meeting in conjunction with EAA Chapter 614's
Annual Fly-In Pancake Breakfast this Saturday at Pineville
Municipal Airport (2L0) in Louisiana.
Tom Poberezny, Chairman of the Experimental Aircraft
Association, says he attempted to act as a mediator, but quickly
determined the group was unwilling to wait to have its grievances
addressed at SAFE's Spring 2016 board meeting.
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