Originally Posted by
skylark-flier
And there you are. Drop AMA down to the status of a newsletter, providing your insurance and trophees, and passing out cards. You don't want an organization to help with flying site retention, club organization, safety (or any other kind of) training, hobby shop assistance, all the various special interest groups, standing with us where they can (no, I don't consider them omnipotent, just very helpful), running interference where they can (also known as keeping BIG BROTHER as far away as possible), or any of the dozens of other things they do right now - you just want your insurance & trophees, and you aren't willing to do even one thing to actually HELP, even for that little bit.
I'm glad I'm not where you are.
yes...kinda my read too. AMA is great to fulfill his immediate needs, but is rendered useless for everything else. Narcissism at it's finest.
Originally Posted by
Chris P. Bacon
So you want others to do all the work, but you want all the benefit of their hard work?