Originally Posted by
mongo
probably closer to 60-70 thousand.
Could very well be. My guesstimate was based on the the 10% rejected FRIAs with half of those displaced
not going to another club, the Park Program going away, and guys like myself who don't fly enough with a
club to make that expense and AMA membership worthwhile. On either estimate AMA is doomed.
As for the AMA and this dream of an app-based solution to hang onto off-field flyers, the FAA has already
rejected voluntary compliance outright. That is further bolstered by the 30-day study released in April by
the Embry-Riddle showing only 7% of drones detected in the controlled airspace around Daytona Beach
International Airport had a 107 approval.
There is no way the FAA would require every drone manufactured to have tamper-proof remote ID and then
allow anyone to build a drone and only require them to log into an app.
The era of voluntary compliance is over. And the end of voluntary compliance is the end of the AMA.