LOL, too funny. First off your policy on how you judge people and their opinions seems to be all over the board. Take for example Franklin's claim that his proposal would be saving a total of 60M because the 800,000 non AMA members that are regestered will not be forced to join AMA. Really? Do you and him actually think that ALL 800,000 are going to join AMA to continue flying and continue to renew if that becomes a requirement? First off if you took that chip off your shoulder and actually thought about it for a minute you would realize that a good percentage of guys who jump into the hobby don't last past the first year. I'm betting that when registration renewals come in that we will see a significant drop in recreational registrations and maybe an increase in commercial. It's too bad that out of those 800,000 that the aircraft type is not tracked, if it were I suspect that the majority of those are MR RTF type. If so many of those are/were used as a photography platform. Almost everyone that I know that purchased an MR for photography reasons lost interest within a year. The bottom line is I suspect that although there are 800,000 registrants, it's obvious to me that not all of then remained active.