The club I belong to maintains a 20 x 200 runway purchased by members contributions, provides 2 shaded picnic tables, 4 plane prep stands. A new member has access to 2 evenings a week where buddy box training flights have flight priority, and to inspection services on every new plane. The $100 one time initiation fee is pretty cheap for the newbie. Most of the more experienced new members that have several planes and a couple of radios don't balk at the initiation fee - one or two downed planes it the outlying woods generally see a half dozen guys searching. After initiation, dues are about $45 a year.