Originally Posted by
astrohog
If this is truly the AMA MO, you would think they would offer more support to clubs' flying facilities/fields. What would happen to the organization as a whole if local clubs couldn't self-support their fields anymore?
Astro
I am a member of 3 clubs and all are able to support themselves financially. The biggest problems clubs are having (at least here in the Northeast) is the dwindling supply of open area to operate in. Many clubs are losing their fields which they had leased from local farmers or landowners because there are now much more profitable uses for the land. The other problem is increasing governmental regulations on the public lands. One of the clubs I belong to is losing its field (which it leases from the town) because it turns out to be the nesting ground of some endangered critter. The state EPA says we can lease the land, but we can't mow the grass on the runway anymore!