I wanted to point that what is more a danger to our hobby. Its people who do dumb things that put our hobby in danger. For example, flying a turbine jet over a hangar full of air planes is just stupid. Especially if that person thinks its funny. Only someone with no brain at all would do that.
So certification or no, bad jets or no, we still have to not be complete idiots at the same time or it dont matter.
ORIGINAL: gunradd
The best thing the AMA could do to help us stay out of the cross hairs of the FAA would be to get involved with this. I don't think we need to go as far as certificating each plane but at least having some type of certification for each aircraft type from the manufactures. That would put the manufactures under the gun to make them airworthy before they send them to the AMA for type certification.
With out the certification then the aircraft cannot fly at AMA events.
So when a new type airframe is built by a manufacture they would need to send one to this AMA inspection for certification. This might even make them make proper manuals with correct CGs and throws.
For sure some big problems are involved. Like who at the AMA could do this? How does it get paid for and exct. Lots of questions but if we could work towrds something like this it would be huge for our hobby in protecting us from the FAA.
Me being someone that deals with the FAA often trust me when I say we dont want them involved at all in our hobby. If they do get involved we will have a hard time even owning jets much less flying them. All it would take is one event where one of these planes fly into the crowd and we are done!