I am a member of the AMA and I think that they provide a wonderful service. However my question is this: Does any other organization offer comparable service (especially insurance)? The way I see it, if AMA is the only one that offers it and you have got to be AMA to fly at most - all organized events then isnt that considered a monopoly? From what I hear, everyone is complaining about the dues going up and the price of this and that, etc. But without competition then AMA can raise the price to whatever they want to. I am by no means dissing AMA b/c I am glad they offer the service they do but maybe someone else should come along and offer the same service to give pilots more options.