ORIGINAL: vicman
To your comment STL, they are qualifying the pilot/model not model/field. With the E-ticket and paid club dues they should be welcomed to fly at an AMA chartered field. Do chartered clubs make a habit out of discriminating gliders, freeflight, or other diciplines? That would be a club issue not an AMA issue.
The E-ticket should allow the same benifiets (or those limitations stated in post 1) with the only restriction being the as stated for the model type and weight.
Well if the AMA goes that route, what really changes? Nothing really. It doesn't encourage the intended purpose. It's not a matter of discrimination, it's a matter of getting these new smaller fields on the radar screen and trying to at the very least grab a very fast growing audience and encourage them to upgrade. In the end they will all be AMA members. If you run the e-ticket and let them use the regular fields, now you are effecting the current AMA club charter program and this will cause outrage. But if you just add a program which encourages upgrade and gives the ability of full AMA ticket holders to be able to use e-fields and full fields, the only thing that will change is that you'll be adding only.
I have a feeling that this is the way the AMA will run the program. It really debunks to reasoning to do it any other way. Don't think about what you need for you if your happy with the current AMA. Think about what a new member or a leaving member will want to stay or join and thats how the AMA has to look at the situation.