Originally Posted by
bradpaul
As I posted in another thread the FAA and the AMA are playing "chicken". The FAA won't recognize and the AMA won't declare.................... Why that is, I would speculate that the AMA has been given guidance by the lawyers and insurance companies.
The AMA should declare in support of model aviation, they ARE A NATIONWIDE COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION and if you adhere to the "programming" (term from the law) of the AMA and the other provisions of the law, that Sec 336 exempts you from further FAA regulation. PUT THE BALL IN THE FAA's COURT TO SAY OTHERWISE!!!!!!
Somewhere, back somewhere, I made a post to the effect that there is
NO actual
Community Based Organization as per the AMA being an
official such organization.
Thank you for your statements, BradPaul, and I do totally agree with your statements in these several postings. AMA leadership, IMO, at this time (and for sometime) is totally resting in the AMA's paid staff.
IMO, the real leadership should rest totally within the Executive Council and those membership-elected Council Members with guidance from the membership itself.
The paid staff hired help should only be there to carry out the mandates of the Executive Council, (
EC).
The current situation can easily be corrected with a strong EC that will take hold of their responsibilities.
With all the new DVPs that will be in the EC come Jan. 01, 2015 and a knowledgeable Pres.along with a
strong EVP, There are some good possibilities of correcting the noted deficiencies.
