Originally Posted by Duncman

Four wonderful flying sites in my area, three of which are land based acreage donated by the local communities and BLM, only requirement is the clubs carry a AMA Charter/insurance, all flyers be AMA and do not discriminate, the fourth site is a waterborne National Recreation Area for float flying and the NPS's only requirement is all who fly be AMA members. Equation is simple, AMA insurance goes away, then so do the flying sites. Folks we can theorize our fingers to the bone but all we'll get is boney fingers, the simple reality is AMA provides insurance and protects the hobby and that has a cost associated with it.