Originally Posted by
fliers1
To be fair to the AMA top brass, what they were trying to do was essentially out of desperation. They had no other way to bring in the member numbers they so desperately need for their ever declining revenue. There just was no other place to go.
I agree that it was out of desperation in an attempt to bring in more money due to declining revenue. Therein lies some of the problem, it was all about the money and very little about the hobby. Yes having more members and more money is a good thing, but many use the declining membership and lack of funds as an excuse for the failure in dealing with the FAA on our behalf. On the surface this sounds logical, and then I look at what a 12,000 member organization (10% of what the AMA has), MAAC, has accomplished with their regulating body in Canada having gotten an exemption for their members, without trying to compel membership through the law and without calling non members rogues and criminals and calling for their prosecution by the government!