I fly competitively and am thus very appreciative of the AMA. I pay $76 for a years subscription for Aviation Modeller International. Model Aviation is a pretty good mag in my estimation. My flying buddies (not organized) and I recently obtained permission to fly CL on a really nice paved municipal parking lot. If we had not been AMA members, and if AMA Headquarters had not supported us, we would have had no chance at permission.

My major complaint with the AMA is that, at the national level, it does a very poor job of promoting model aviation to the general public. I raise this point from time to time with AMA officials and get another letter to the editor about it published in Model Aviation. No avail, so far.

Jim