The PlAProducts - Parachute Industry Association

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MINUTES F'IA MEETING
oRLANDO, FLORIDA
JANUARY 18 E. 19. 1991
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E1,665 OF THE ORIGINAL eSrCrOO BROCHURES HAVE BEEN SOLD WITH
ABOUT 1,5C)C) REMRINING FOR SALE. THE BALANCE HRD BEEN USED
FOR F.ROMOTING THE BROCHURE. WHEN ALL IY1ONIES ARE COLLECTED
THERE I^JILL FE A LOSS OF AT-.F.ROXIMATELY $1,(:)OO.O(:I ON THE FIRST
F'RINTING. THE COMI4ITTEE WILL REGUEST $ElC)C). CIC} TO FINANCE
SECOND FRINTING OF E5, OOO BROCHURES. SALES OF THE SECOND
F.RINTING WILL MAKE THE F'ROJECT SELF_SUF.F'ORTING.
MIKE TRUFFER HAS BEEN HANDLING THE GENERIC TANDEM POSTER RND
HE ADVISED THAT SALES HAVE BEEN SLOW tdrTH ONLY ABOUT 5,OOC!
oF THE 1(i,OOO FrRST PRINTING BEING SOLD. NO NEW MONEY WILL
BE NEEDED FOR REF'RINTING. IT WAS SUGGESTED THAT F'OSSIELY
TIIE F'ARACHUTE MAGAZINES WOULD F.UBLISH "NEIdS BRIEFS" ADVISING
THRT TFIE F'OSTERS ARE flVAILAELE. CINDY GIBSON I^IAS AF'F.OINTED
TO HANDLE THIS.
DRN F,OYNTER, [^JHO IS I-IRNDLING SALES OF THE MALFUNC-rION F,HOTOS
REF.ORTED THIS F.RODUCT IS IN ITS THIRD F'RINTING AND GOING
hELL HITH SOME SALES GOING OVERSEAS.
TI]ERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ON THE FAA DRUG REGULATIONS. NO ONE
HAD ANY NEW INFORMATION OTHER THAN AF.RIL ]S STILL THE DEADLINE
FOR COMF.LIANCE, BUT RUMORS AND ARTICLES SAY THE REGUIREMENT WILL
EE EXTENDED OR EVEN F.OSSIBLY RECALLED.
THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION UN THE STFITUS I:]F TIIE B{)(:) NUMBER.
MIKE TRUFFER REF.ORTED THAT THE NUMBER I4A5 STILL IN OF.ERATION AND
I,'IOULD F.ROBABLY CONTINUE THROUGH 1991.
THAT CONCLUDED OLD BUSINESS.
NEW BUSINESS
THE FIRST TOF,IC DISCUSSED WAS THE REVIVRL OF THE F'ROMOTIONAL
VIDEO. THIS I^JAS THE VIDEO bIE RECEIVED F.RIOR F'RICE GUOTRTIONS OF
$5(:,, (:)(:)C) TO F RODUCE. t^JE FELT THAT THESE TAF,ES COULD BE MADE BY
LOCAL CABLE TV STATIONS FOR ES LITTLE AS $5O(J. LEW I^JELZEL WILL
LOOK INTO THIS F'ROJECT RND REF,ORT HIS FINDINGS AT THE NEXT
MEET I NG.
TTIE SECOND TOF.IC I^IA5 THE BUMF'ER-WINDOW STICKER. BOB SF'RAGUE
TALKED TO MIKE TRUI-JFER AND FOUND THERE ARE 1()(:)(.) T-'RINTED AND
AVAILABLE FOR sALE.
THE THRID ITEM I^JAS THE F'OSSIBLE NEED FOR A SAFETY AND TRAINING
SUB-COMMITTEE TO COORDINATE BETWEEN USF'A AND F'IA ON SAFETY R.
TRAINING TSSUES. BOB SF'RAGUE, LEt^t WELZELT JAN MEYERS AND CINIIY
GTBSON WrLL SERVE ON Tl-tE SUB COMMITTEE. BrLL HAYES, UStrA
CHAIRMRN OF THE SAFETY & TRAINING COMMIT'TEE hIAS MOST RECEF.TIVE
TO THE IDEA.