In this recent thread, we discussed what most makes a club attractive. But some of the things voted important may be things that are well covered. (Especially, in my experience, friendliness of the members; it's super important, and it's also present in every club I've flown with.)
So now I'm asking a slightly different question: what is most lacking in the clubs you've known. These will be the things that club leaders need to pay more attention to improving, rather than focusing on things that are already good.
I'm using mostly the same choices as the first pole, but I've changed out two of them. (I wanted to just add two, but the forum limits polls to ten choices, so I had to make room.) "Ability to host big launches" got by far the fewest votes in the first pole; I figure since it's not a major item it can't be a major item lacking. "Waiver altitude" and "Size of rockets that can be launched" are closely related, and got nearly the same number of votes before, so I figured one of them could go.
The replacements are
So now I'm asking a slightly different question: what is most lacking in the clubs you've known. These will be the things that club leaders need to pay more attention to improving, rather than focusing on things that are already good.
I'm using mostly the same choices as the first pole, but I've changed out two of them. (I wanted to just add two, but the forum limits polls to ten choices, so I had to make room.) "Ability to host big launches" got by far the fewest votes in the first pole; I figure since it's not a major item it can't be a major item lacking. "Waiver altitude" and "Size of rockets that can be launched" are closely related, and got nearly the same number of votes before, so I figured one of them could go.
The replacements are
- "Family friendly atmosphere", which got a lot of mentions in the discussion of the other poll, as well as discussion of just what it means, so continue that here if you like.
- Organized educational events for newbies. This came from a discussion with my daughter, who isn't a rocketeer, but likes to participate vicariously and says this would be a big thing if she decided to give it a try.