Originally Posted by
ECHO24
AMA's so-called mission statement is boiler-plate verbiage. For AMA's real mission statement read Rich Hanson's op-ed in The Hill:
"We are willing to work with Congress and the UAS industry to ensure that those that fly under Section 336
are educated, trained and managed by an established community-based organization "
That means all recreational flyers, conditioned with Hanson's pitch that recreational flyers not belonging to AMA are basically criminals that
deserve to be punished: "task the FAA with increasing enforcement so that those who violate Part 107 are held accountable for their actions".
What leader of any other hobby or sport would attack its own constituency like that, much less in an appeal to Congress in a major publication? How
much more malignant could an organization be? The FAA dumped a bucket of ice water on Hanson and AMA's forced membership scam a week later.
That is YOUR interpretation. Not everybodies. Note he does NOT mention AMA, only CBOs. YOU choose to see the boogie-man under the rock. But when taken at face value, there was no 'forced membership scam'. That is only in the mind of conspiracy nuts.
R_Strowe