Originally Posted by
FUTABA-RC
For an organization you are not even a member of you spend an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to show the masses the errors of their ways for not hating the AMA. I wonder how it would go on the NAMBA or IMPBA forums if a non-member hopped in and started lecturing everyone on what was wrong with those organizations?
IF the AMA was doing what it was created for, way back when, I probably would be a member right now. As I said, in my previous post, I do have aircraft under construction that I stopped working on due to the AMA/FAA/Congress "feud" over multi-rotors. My collection includes a pair of Kadets that are being built from plans, three 50cc gas powered aerobatic planes waiting to be started, again from plans and a Goldberg Electra kit.
As for NAMBA and IMPBA, I'll be the first to say they are not perfect in any sense of the word. That said, they aren't pulling the same kinds of asinine stunts and games the AMA has been trying to pull off. Had NAMBA been pulling those kinds of stunts, I'd be just as vocal there as I am here and probably wouldn't be a member there either. The only reason I am a member is so I can race my scale hydroplanes. If I was just "fun running", I wouldn't bother with membership