How about some supporting documents. Don't get me wrong, I can see where if you have a bias against the AMA that would be the logical conclusion. Set aside the bias and you may realize that it was Hanson interpreting what the FAA had already put out there. He was wrong of course and his mistake was not getting clarification from the FAA prior to writing his peice. However if you have a copy of an official document ( or anyone else for that matter ) from Hanson to the FAA that states all recreational R/C pilots NEED to be AMA members then I would be happy to admit that I am wrong. Of course it's easy to come to the conclusion that when a government agency states " within the programming " that it could very well mean membership. The root cause of the confusion lays within the verbiage of what the FAA originally put out there. Compounded by Hanson not getting clarification prior to making assumptions. That is one point I think everyone on this forum can agree on, Hanson needs to be replaced.