ORIGINAL: Red Baron Mike

In the Sacramento Area, several of our club members arranged for a local city to sell annual permits for $ 5.00 to allow small electrics to
fly in two of their parks. We suggested they only allow AMA members to participate for insurance purposes. Our primary selling point was the reality of "park fliers" being flown "unsupervised" by somewhat inexperienced pilots in every available park. By allowing two specific sites and requiring AMA membership, the city reduced its exposure to accident claims since there are now two semi-organized flying sites instead of dozens of unorganized locations, the pilots are covered by AMA insurance, plus the city gets to sell $ 5.00 annual permits...everyone wins.