Originally posted by tesmith
Ok, here's the deal. About 9 years ago i was 15 and my uncle got me into model airplanes. He is a very experienced modeler however he was not an AMA member because he disagreed with a rule they have about only flying his planes at the club. Which is understandable because he lived on a farm and had pleanty of his own land in the country to fly.
OK first off, your uncle had been sadly misinformed about the AMA. There is not nor has there ever been an AMA rule that says you can only fly at a club site. There are no AMA fields, The AMA charters clubs and not fields or locations.
As far as going it alone if thirty seconds flight time till the first repairs or rebuilding is OK then go for it. If not then you might want to heed the good advice you have been reading on this board. A thirty five mile drive a few times is an incredibly cheap price for the lifetime of satisfaction this sport can become. Without that drive you will just end up another who has wreaked their airplane in solatude and disappeared forever.
Hopefully you will see the light because beleive it or not we want to see you succeed and become a contributor here.
John