Originally Posted by
ira d
I agree with you 100% and if the FAA does pay you a visit the fact that you are a AMA member or not won't mean anything at that point anyway.
I believe if things got so bad at a club field that the FAA had to send someone , the fact of being an AMA member not only wouldn't help out the offender , it would likely land him/her in even more trouble since being an AMA member means to have promised to follow the AMA safety code . Which of course the FAA official would use as proof of the offender knowing exactly which rules of safe operation he/she was breaking , as they rolled the safety code neatly and stuffed it up the nose of the offender(s) . A non AMA member could try to plead ignorance of the safe rules of operation in the hope of some (unlikely) forgiveness on the FAA official's part , but It'd be obvious to all present that anyone with an AMA card knew exactly which rules were being broken to bring the FAA official calling in the first place .