ORIGINAL: Matt Kirsch
All well and good until the AMA says, "Okay local club, here's the land. Now it's up to you to develop and maintain it." Then it'll be back to wailing and moaning about how the AMA does nothing for the typical member.
Matt-
I think (hope) you are being facetious about this. I belong to a club that has acquired use of a closed landfill for our flying site - some 20 years ago, so there is nothing new about this, nor unusual. Getting access to the site is more than enough to expect from any organization above the club level, be it a national organization like AMA or as it was in our case, from a consortium of clubs in our county. Development and maintenance of it isn't the hard part, and we were and remain grateful that we had the opportunity to do it.
Abel