Yes, I was a member of the AMA, even signed up my two youngest. Flew at sanctioned club fields and then, just got tired of the lack of scheduled flying days at the field, the loud gassers, when we did all get together to fly and flying just over the ridge from a small airport. Me, I enjoy flying in all sorts of weather conditions(windy, rainy, snowy, hot and freezing), but the club members were old fogeys, and only came out on Sundays(if the weather was nice). So, I eventually, faded away from there. So, please don't assume that because I fly the way that I do, that I've never been a member of the AMA. Just never really saw what my $$, was paying for, or to whom it was really going to, for that matter.