Hérault Aeroclub: Christophe Calage elected president of the regional committee of the aeronautical federation

Président de l’Aéroclub de l’Hérault, Christophe Calage prend, avec cette nomination, de l’envergure. Aéroclub de l'Hérault

President of the Hérault Aeroclub based in Montpellier since September 2021, one of the oldest in France, on March 9 he became president of the Regional Committee Aeronautics of Occitanie within the French Aeronautical Federation (FFA).

Since March 9, the Occitanie regional aeronautical committee of the French Aeronautical Federation (FFA) has a new president with Christophe Calage. ;rsquo;Hérault Aeroclub based in Montpellier since September 2021 (one of the oldest popular aviation clubs in France, since created in 1910, Editor's note), he was chosen unanimously by the sixty-seven presidents of flying clubs in the region.

"These flying clubs must be
force of proposals"

Which were visibly seduced by the project carried out by the person concerned. Who intends to duplicate at the regional level what he has been initiating for a little over two years now at the local level. Namely: "work very closely with the Federation (whose brand new president Kevin Dupuch was elected a week ago, Editor’s note) and the sixty-seven flying clubs and their five thousand pilots. Knowing that Occitanie is one of the largest regions in France in this area. These flying clubs must be a source of proposals and at the center of the regional body. But also that the latter be a tool of promotion, defense and support vis-à-vis communities (elected officials, Civil Aviation…)", summarizes Christophe Setting.

Multiply the feedback

It is also a question of "improving exchanges between clubs and their presidents." Like the experiment launched , since last October between the Montpellier Aeroclub, the Airbus Aeroclub (330 members) and that of Toulouse-Midi-Pyrénées (415 members). This is to encourage feedback related to common issues (administrative burdens, fuel prices, aircraft maintenance, ecology, training, aircraft acquisitions…).

Proof already displayed of this desire for change: the appointment of administrators within the regional body, from flying clubs scattered across the territory (Millau, Rodez , Alès or even Montauban).

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