Originally Posted by
Retiredat38
I've had a few chats with our City Council members. Contribute enough to their campaigns and they listen to anything you care to say. But aside from that, this particular council never heard of the RC modeling AMA before the local club approached then about a field. Medical and motorcycle they knew about. But Models? And BTW, I have permission to fly at the city funded and provided RC Air Park without being AMA or having their insurance. They know my word is good and if I say I'm covered, I'm covered. But I'm staying home. I have a better runway, far nicer bathrooms and I don't have to put up with jerks.
That said, thanks to the proliferation of both recreational and commercial MR Drones, sources of insurance abound. One can get personal liability, site liability and hull coverage that will even cover a crash. And it is ALL primary coverage unlike the AMA products. You can get this by the day, month and year. Pay for only the time you're actually flying. Less than 5 minutes on your smart phone, tablet or PC will activate or deactivate your coverage for the dates, times and locations you so designate.
Yep, I have found all of these things to be true as well. It is the AMA Kool-Aid and old information circulated for decades from one apathetic AMA member to another, over generations, that lead us to the typical AMA member full of the planted AMA mythology that keeps them blindly funding the AMA coffers with little or no expectations of receiving anything in return.
Astro