Funny,
I thought AMA's Mission was to promote model aviation.Insurance came along later. Now you have splinter groups for all faucets of the hobby. Thats good, but where did AMA end their orginal mission and start to only protect their revenue?? YES YES, they need to cover their butts, but now it seems that's all they do!. So you need JPO to lobby them and well that's fine and good but no one should be able to totally dictate new regulations without the AMA's memberships blessing. In other words, where is the democracy in AMA? You vote in officer's, but that's it! If new regulations cost more or entail more steps to fly something, put it to the membership and let us carry the obligations that go with it.
Isn't it a shame that what would really work (buddy box, etc..) is never going to happen, why is that?
When I first flew my turbine, I had NO EXPERIENCE what would happen next.oh yeah I know how to fly and all that but you really don't know something till you've tried it and so why would you not want to give some REAL flight experience to a guy before he solo's? That alone would be the best help to new turbine pilots, IMHO!