Young Eagles May Pilot Update

[Byron J. Covey]

They claim to contact them if you have a question... I contacted them and they ignored it. So showing they are ignoring emails when they ask you to email them is very relevent to the conversation.

I say they ignored it since I sent it Jan 22nd and being almost Memorial Day now I have not gotten a reply.

But since you asked... Here ya go:
January 22, 2016 7:24PM
To: Feed Back <feedback@eaa.org>
Cc: Bret Steffen <bsteffen@eaa.org>, Janine Diana <jdiana@eaa.org>
Re: Young Eagles
My data has been stolen from:
1. The Office of Personnel Management (from a vendor)
2. My company (from a vendor)
3. My health care company

My wife's data has been stolen:
1. With my data from OPM
2. From a charity she worked for

Now, what is the EAA willing to do if my data is stolen from your vendor? You going to pay for my credit to be repaired? You going to handle the countless piles of paperwork and dealing with the credit bureaus? Is the EAA going to contact all the companies that think I owe them money and explain the situation?

Because if not, then I'll tell you that the chance you are going to get my SSN number is nothing.

Thanks for sharing.

I understand your concern, and I consider it to be a valid concern, but if I had received that email, I would have considered the questions as rethorical, and I would have ignored it.

Perhaps that was also the reaction of the EAA staffers.


BJC

[ssmdive]

Thanks for sharing.

I understand your concern, and I consider it to be a valid concern, but if I had received that email, I would have considered the questions as rethorical, and I would have ignored it.

Perhaps that was also the reaction of the EAA staffers.


BJC

I have asked in email, FaceBook, here, and somewhere else why I have not gotten a reply. If that is not enough of an indication I would like a response.... I don't know what to tell you.

[Glory Aulik]

I have asked in email, FaceBook, here, and somewhere else why I have not gotten a reply. If that is not enough of an indication I would like a response.... I don't know what to tell you.

Ron - Have you checked your spam mailbox? I reached out to Bret and have a copy of the email that was sent in response to yours on January 21. Happy to forward to you again. Let me know.

[Glory Aulik]

6000 YEPs and YEVs?Glory- is there a tally of how many pilots and or volunteers we had last year?Ted

Ted - so sorry for the late response, I missed this reply. I am reaching out to get you an answer now.

[Glory Aulik]

6000 YEPs and YEVs?Glory- is there a tally of how many pilots and or volunteers we had last year?Ted

To answer your question - We average at about 5800 pilots/coordinators each year.

[Mark van Wyk]

To answer your question - We average at about 5800 pilots/coordinators each year.

That's great news, Glory. Sounds like the Youth Protection Program is a success, and Young Eagles is going strong.

[deftone]

That's great news, Glory. Sounds like the Youth Protection Program is a success, and Young Eagles is going strong.

And yet we already have reports of cancelled YE events......

[Mark van Wyk]

And yet we already have reports of cancelled YE events......

While others are doing just fine, thank you very much.
For example:
http://eaaforums.org/showthread.php?...6-a-success!!!

[rwanttaja]

Well, if there's a huge tailoff in YE participation, I don't expect that EAA will emphasize it.

Are previous years' numbers published (# of kids flown, # of EAA participants), that we could save and compare 2016 to?

There's also the "No such thing as bad publicity aspect," where folks who hadn't participated in a while got interested again.

Ron Wanttaja

[Mark van Wyk]

Well, if there's a huge tailoff in YE participation, I don't expect that EAA will emphasize it.

Are previous years' numbers published (# of kids flown, # of EAA participants), that we could save and compare 2016 to?

There's also the "No such thing as bad publicity aspect," where folks who hadn't participated in a while got interested again.

Ron Wanttaja

There's also the "it is what it is" aspect. Specifically, the Youth Protection program is here to stay, and those that wish to participate will be background checked, and if that means numerically fewer YE operations this year, then that's just the way it is. But, EAA is not backing down from the YE requirement. I personally hope the numbers are the same or higher, but if they are not, so be it.