I usually don't make comments regarding AMA threads, I spend most of my spare time in the basement building "toy" planes. When I'm on RCU it's mostly checking the warbird and scale threads, but your question got me thinking. I have belonged to a club of 40-50 members for many years, we fly at an old airstrip owned by the town. Each year we go to select board to get their approval to fly, as we have been doing for many years. Economic reasons aside, they require us to have site insurance and we as a club require all members to have a current AMA membership. The town has no other requirements, we basically use the property for free. The site could not be better, 800X75 runway, no restrictions at either end. Being an AMA member is a small price to pay to have what we have... would you agree?