survey

[Todd Brooks]

Wow, looks like I slept late!  We might need to set a chat thread on a web site if we keep this up.
 
Steve, I like the survey being online. That's great!  
I guess it is ok to ask the potential members this early.  But I would make it perfectly clear in a separare paragraph with Bold letter, that this is only to figure out a price threshhold for the members in order to purchase our first plane, and these are only examples and not actual choices  (or something like that).
 


--- On Sat, 4/11/09, Steve Gordon <steve at media-phile.com> wrote:


From: Steve Gordon <steve at media-phile.com>
Subject: RE: survey
To: eefc-core at workingcode.com
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009, 11:09 AM








So far I have four completes (including mine).  I will wait for everyone to complete the survey before I release results so that the partial results do not sway anyone’s opinions.  I’m looking at this as a trial run, and we’ll incorporate everyone’s comments into the real survey we send out to the membership.
 
-Steve
 


From: williammccann at comcast.net [mailto:williammccann at comcast.net] 
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 10:01 AM
To: James Carlson
Cc: eefc-core at workingcode.com; Steve Gordon
Subject: Re: survey
 

Steve , 
 
Nice work on the survey!!! What are the results of the data collected from the survey from the seven members?
We are giving three options of three high wing aircraft. Why not substitue a low wing for the 9000hr C172 and see if anybody is interested.
 
Bill 
 

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Carlson" <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
To: "Steve Gordon" <steve at media-phile.com>
Cc: eefc-core at workingcode.com
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:39:24 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: RE: survey

Steve Gordon writes:
> My idea for the survey was that for each price bracket, we would gauge how
> many members our club can expect, and therefore how much the one-time and
> monthly dues will be.  For example, if only the seven of us are interested
> in a Cardinal, then we'd know that we'll each have to contribute about
> $1,500 down and then about $200/month thereafter (assuming we'd want to keep
> such a beautiful plane in a hangar).  If, however, we find a total of 15
> interested members, we can cut those numbers in half making the Cardinal a
> more affordable prospect.

That's exactly what I was hoping for.  We need to have a gauge on how
many are interested, and there are multiple variables.  It's not just
"are you interested?" but "given a certain airplane and a certain set
of costs, would you be interested?"

In other words, we can't just ask "how interested are you?"  I don't
think that answers the question we have, and it's a little too vague
for prospective members ... they could all say "definitely" and then
find out that the gang of six wants to splurge on a P210 because we
like flying higher.  They'd drop out quickly, and the club wouldn't
work.  (Unless I've got money I don't know about.  ;-})

For some, the acute choice comes down to the cost, and little else
matters.  For some, it's the airplane.  For others, it's a
combination.

I don't think we're asking people to choose a particular single plane
right now, just something in the right neighborhood.  Once we know
what ballpark we're in, and roughly how many players we can expect, we
can start the _real_ shopping.

-- 
James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
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