Originally Posted by
jester_s1
Whatever the nuances of the advertising campaign wording would imply, BarracudaHockey is right. They simply have made a deal to get a discount for AMA members with a commercial drone insurance company. That's not exactly a wholesale abandonment of the AMA's mission. It's very logical to me; a lot of hobby RC pilots think about turning their interest into a business. We now have a legal path to doing so. Many of us are AMA members, so if a person who is into aeromodeling decides to start an aerial photography business and sees that keeping up his AMA membership gets him a discount on the coverage he needs, it makes sense to keep paying dues. Am I the only one who fails to see how this makes sense for the AMA to do?
It's not a matter of making sense, no matter how it's been twisted. It is, however, a matter of going after a possible new cash source that is in no way associated with the mission statement posted above by Astrohog. By trying to force commercial drone flyers to join the AMA for insurance reasons,
THE EC THINKS IT WILL INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP AND THE CASH FLOW, REGARDLESS OF THE FACT IT'S IN DIRECT CONFLICT WITH THE AMA'S MISSION STATEMENT