Originally Posted by
speedracerntrixie
I am very familiar with that case, I have a few friends that fly there regularly. They are currently working an agreement with the FAA to keep the field open. The Basin has been on the radar quite frequently the past few years because it is one of the only fields that does not require AMA. According to the club members that I talk to on a regular basis, it is the non AMA members that have been creating the problems for the site.
However, keep things in perspective, that is one field out of over 2,500. I would never claim that all AMA members operate in a perfectly safe manner all the time, as a whole however members have a great safety record.
And of course you're "very familiar." But there's a list of fields that are shut down (inside two miles) and therefore not authorized. Yet AMA is telling folks to fly normally. All the AMA is doing is handing the FAA the stick to beat them with. Proving that even when the rules are simple, nothing above 400 feet in class G, and inside controlled airspace up to the grid altitude, the AMA won't follow it.
Which would cause me to ask ... when you were flying at your field, did everyone obey the 400 foot limit? Of course they did. Yeah right. Again, proving to FAA that the hobby won't even follow simple rules.