Think back even 10 years ago, when I started I had to save up about 1000 dollars to buy my first hangar9 solo star electric planes then didn't really exist the ones that were around were nothing but toys but the game has changed vastly since then you don't need all the space to fly that a club offered now there not just 3 big distributors there are now 300 from BH to NP and many many more the lions share of the market has gone now from the builders like some of us the the out of the box to the field group the AMA really doesn't offer a whole lot to the group us builders are fading away Byron used to make beautiful kits and they had to close that part of the business now they make pool and patio furniture like it or not or hobby has changed some of us old guys know and see the beauty in building a 1/4 scale and putting endless hours in it but if I was new to it I'd take that same 1000 bucks and buy 5 rtfs the game has changed but the AMA there really is no ama competitions for the foam park fliers no fields charted for that purpose no advertising in MA for them and until the AMA or we as members decide to change that when us builders go to the hangar in the sky so will the AMA WHAT CAN WE DO TO CHANGE THAT??