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Old 03-03-2021 | 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Retiredat38
As Echo24 said, "there is no denying how big and entrenched AMA has become".

Any guess as to how many other Non-Profits are bigger? Let's start with the NRA.
Or how about the number of corporations employing more than the 200,000 the AMA claims for membership?

And yet, even at 200,000 the AMA has only 20% of the total sUAS pilots registered with the FAA. And if you think the FAA and other govie types haven't noticed this, would you care to purchase a Bridge? I have a fine one for sale in Brooklyn!
Here is another set of numbers for you: FliteTest has 1.9 million YouTube subscribers as opposed to 34 thousand for the AMA's channel. OK, a lot of the FT YouTube subscribers probably do not fly and/or are outside the US, but as an indicator, it shows that there are a lot more people interested in the hobby than there are AMA members.
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