I firmly believe the president of the AMA has no problem forsaking traditional model aircraft for autonomous drones. He believes the AMA will grow with new membership of drone operators and the members who are traditional R/C pilots are now secondary. He and the AMA have launched a "Drones are Good" program to defend drone flying but never took equal effort to explain to the FAA the vast difference between autonomous drones and traditional model aircraft that operate line of sight. The AMA has "reacted" to the ridiculous senate proposals but never took the proper initiatives to prevent this. Instead, they embraced autonomous drones at the expense of the freedoms for traditional model aircraft flyers.