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Sniveling
Why snivel over spilt milk. It seems everybody and their dog (old cliche') has to be a "dues paying member" of this or that in order that they feel important, like AOPA or CPA or what-have-you, and wear their little sticker. It makes no never mind to me, and while most of these membership-driven organizations charge a fee to join and belong to their exclusive group so that they can send you their glossy magazine filled with advertisements and get their so-called timely information, my sense of joining and belonging is owning a 337 like the rest of you, and owning the materials that Cessna makes available in order to fly and maintain the Skymaster, and being able to actively interact with the rest of you without a fee attached or somebody trying to make a quick-buck like the middle-man, so that we can get the best from these machines and enjoy flying. THAT's what I consider my fees for belonging and joining with the rest of you. I don't need AOPA or CPA, or the much touted Cessna Owner Organization and their magazine which is published by Aircraft Owners Group, which is a division of Jones Publishing Group that has similar dues-paying, membership-driven organizations for Beech and Piper... oh, and you thought they were exclusive for "Cessna Owners"... what a laugh. All they sell is a "membership" and you get a slick monthly magazine which they are able to publish only because of all the full bore retail ad space they've sold to dealers and manufacturers. Whoopy. Now I hear that certain personages have "maligned" some one of the publishers and writers and head-honchos of one of these organizations. I wish people would check their dictionary before using such words. "Malign", according to Webster's, is defined as: "adj 1 : evil in nature, influence, or effect (hindered by ~ influences>; also : MALIGNANT 2 : moved by ill will toward others." Now, I read what GMAs stated, and I didn't grasp that he meant any of that toward the head-honcho over at that other place. As a matter of fact, I got kind-of-a-laugh as I read it. Sort of a humerous put-down, somewhat humiliating perhaps, but knowing the ground we've been over before, no big deal... just like if you stepped in the cat's milk bowl and it spilt it. No... we... ALL of us that are over here at the SOAP site don't really need the pay-for-this and pay-for-that nickel and diming that goes on with all those other dues-paying "I want to be a member and belong..." organizations. We have the best right here and right now, and we've already paid our dues to be a "member" and "belong"... We're the 337 Skymaster owners and operators. As such, our dues to belong have already been paid for and as long as we can keep an internet connection, this is so much better than a printed magazine, and you get answers to your questions generally as quickly as the time it takes to write them. And BTW, do any of you really understand the VALUE of having GMAs around here? If you don't, next time you have a problem with your plane, walk over there across the ramp and talk to the chief Mr. Fix-It wrench twister or call the head-honcho over at so-and-so, and see what kind of an answer they give you. Nuff said.
SkyKing
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