Originally Posted by
R_Strowe
B) Much of the failings being attributed to the AMA are beyond the ability of any CBO to fight, especially when one is dealing with agencies and an administration that only listen to who they want to listen to.
I absolutely, positively, emphatically disagree!! What do yo think we have been saying all along? The whole point of these threads is because we believe the AMA COULD (probably too late now) have made a huge difference, but they dropped the ball.
Originally Posted by R_Strowe
It could be AMA, SFA, PMA, etc. Does anyone REALLY think other groups would have any more success with FAA/DHS/DOJ/etc?
As far as other groups, possibly, we'll have to see.
I can't believe that you can't see the progression of this from the beginning, and the degradation of not only the relationship between the AMA and FAA, but how the FAA and the Feds CLEARLY lost respect for the AMA as an organization. The whole, "within the programing" thing played a large part in that, and may have been the single biggest faux pas by the AMA in their entire history.
I ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, EMPHATICALLY believe that if the AMA had not romanced the drones and created clear separation of them from traditional modeling, that things would have played out in our favor and vastly different than what we are facing now.
If you didn't already know that, you clearly haven't been paying attention to these threads, or are just being obtuse.
Astro