700 AMA clubs did not apply for a FRIA
At last count approx. 700 AMA had not applied for a FRIA. That almost 1/3 of of clubs. That was over a month ago so that number has changed but even 500 clubs could mean AMA ends up in financial trouble down the road..
It’s not so much that a club doesn’t get a FRIA. It’s the reason. The initial estimate was that 10% of AMA clubs would not qualify. For the rest, why not? I asked Barracuda a couple times about it and he’s not privy to that or isn’t saying.
A handful of people typically do 90% of the work keeping a club going. If people responsible are not applying because they just don’t want the hassle anymore that’s a bad sign. A FRIA is a lot easier than requiring RID modules.
It’s not clear however many of AMA’s 165,000 paying members (numbers are all over the place AMA’s Linkedin page shows 190.000) are active, but 49.4 members per club is 122,857, with many of those inactive. A lot of people keep an AMA membership for the insurance or on the chance they might become active again. Remote ID is going to cause many of those to quit entirely.