Originally Posted by
NEoldtimer
it's a good value IMHO, less than the cost of one dinner for two. you just don't like the AMA and whine like a little girl about it.
Going by the low single digit percentage of AMA members who actually vote, the vast majority couldn't care less about the goings on inside AMA
and view it as just another cost of flying RC. The cost isn't the deal breaker, it's when you consider the catastrophic bad decisions made by AMA,
first and foremost the stupid decision by AMA Pres. Hanson to publicly lobby Congress to pass legislation for force drone owners (then 700,000),
and everyone else who flies RC, to join AMA.
The result of that arrogance was AMA being pushed out by Congress, losing 336, and the FAA taking over the hobby with no LOS carveout, a
carveout that AMA only half-heartedly came out for after it became clear that AMA no longer ran the show. Way too late. It was the fantasy that
AMA's financial future was with drone flyers,
people who have no use for flying fields or AMA.
How did that turn out? Model aircraft hobbyists now flying sUAS's under federal control (and penalties). So if you're happy with that, great.