Changing the subject are we?

You've stated that the likely effect of your proposed FRIA changes would be the FAA dropping the concept altogether. Your 800,000 imaginary friends still get no place to play. So it's Viet Nam all over again -- hamstrung by your rules of engagement (the phony equal protection argument), you destroy the thing you were trying to protect in order to "save" it.

You seem convinced that the FRIA concept is an AMA scheme to boost membership. I don't think so. I think it's the bone the FAA threw traditional model fliers to make the Remote ID poison go down easier. Well, this puppy will take a bone, as long as it gets my nose under the tent. Regulations are living things, and once the FRIA concept is on the books it can be morphed into something we all can use.

But if you succeed in strangling the baby in the cradle - everybody loses. Don't let your personal beefs with a few AMA members and clubs lead you to do that.