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Old 12-06-2017 | 02:34 PM
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Default The real reason behind section 336?

Originally Posted by Hydro Junkie
Sounds to me like the EC has totally lost track of WHAT THE AMA IS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING!!!!!!
The fact that they are becoming what amounts to an insurance brokerage, sponsoring A MANNED FLYING DEVICE event, USING MEMBERSHIP SUPPLIED FUNDS, and not doing anything to help the clubs and flyers that actually could use the help tells me the EC members need to be recalled, fired, or whatever other term is used by the AMA bylaws
So AMA's been saying that reason behind 336 was to preserve the hobby. This chart shows that the reason may well have been to reverse a decade long decline in membership revenue. Now it makes much more sense why AMA Government Affairs continues to imply (wrongly per FAA email to me) that membership is required to comply with 336...
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