ORIGINAL: dbcisco
Sounds like the TRS-80 clubs shortly after the IBM-PC was introduced. Face it, ARFs and RTFs are here to stay and that is the way most people getting into the hobby are going.
I think ARFs and RTFs are great. I may want to built a kit one day, but right now I am tickled with my ARFs and the real plus is for a guy at my age that works a lot of hours I can go fly on the weekends. Really cool for someone like me. I have a plan to build a kit when I retire, but who knows.
I think there might be a growth problem for AMA going forward and it is hard to call I am sure. For some of us I think it is just a wait and see attitude. I do believe in promoting the hobby, whether AMA is the key to that, I am simply not sure at all.