ORIGINAL: Tony Iannucelli
Most members don't care about competition, most don't want ''power'' within the organization, and most don't have any axe to grind. They just want to fly. But when they join a club, they have to have AMA, for INSURANCE purposes. I don't know anyone who doesn't have that as their #1 reason and I've met a lot of fliers over the 38 years I've been in the hobby.
Very good post, sir and I appreciate your information.
I have been emphasizing the fact that insurance has been the main reason many times throughout the threads on AMA.
If you took the insurance away, how many would drop their memberships within the first year? The numbers would be catastrophic to the AMA and I bet they know this, too. I would imagine about 80% of the four clubs within a reasonable driving distance from me would drop the membership completely within a year, and certain within two years at most. The majority ONLY need the insurance because the AMA chartered clubs
require it.