Hotrod, if you take out your AMA card and read the back of it, you will find a statement of what the AMA is, by their definition. No where on the card does it say it is a license. Some people at the field may call it that, but then again, I call all brown colored sodas Coke!

UMA might have simple rules for now, but if they were to grow to the current size of the AMA, do you not think prices would increase? What would they be paying for insurance if everyone flew 100 lb models?

I know of no UMA members where I live, nor do I know of any UMA fields by me. UMA evidently answers the need to some flyers, and that's great. Maybe one day I'll join, but right now I certainly do not see the need.

What's hurting the hobby, and costs, are what I consider frivolous lawsuits against AMA, as in a current thread ($1.35M paid to a guy who painfully got whacked in the shins with a CL model). How close to the CL circle was he standing when he got whacked? Was he thinking?