franklin_m

The most important statement in Earl Lawrence's response, the last sentence:

"But in general, no, you do not have to be a member of a specific organization in order to be operating under their safety guidelines (emphasis added)."

So there it is. According to the FAA, you can operate under an organization's safety guidelines w/o being a member of that same organization. And I have to hand it to the FAA, they got the AMA to agree to keep their safety programming on the public portion of their website "in order to promote safety throughout the entire aero-modeling community, even among non-AMA members (emphasis added)." See page 2 of attached file, last bullet of "AMA agrees to..."

If AMA wants to force their interpretation, the solution is simple. Break the MOU with the FAA and move safety guidelines and safety programming to the members only area!