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Hoss,
Thanks for the input....but.
I think some of your opinion is based on what you have read from this forum. Much of what was attributed to Bill O. (i.e. the airpl,ane Nazi's the Safety Ghestapo) was nothing more artistic licenese taken by a couple of posters in the "interpretation" of what they felt was going on. As JR and I have stated, much of what was attributed to Bill and the S&L committee on this forum was a stretch of some pretty dark imaginations. I.E. I seem to remember a question of "Do they want us to report every prop/finger strike? This answer (again as stated by JR) was no. They want a report file kept on major (read claims) accidents involoving the insurance side of AMA. This report file will assist the AMA if they see a trrend in which they need to "tweak " the rules to protect the membership.
J.L.
Jay-
I guess my imagination was on the dark side, as I didn't (still don't) see why such reports are purposeful if limited as per what JR learned from Bill O. For accidents that involve claims, one might think the reporting has already been done - else what was the basis for paying the claims? What is the value added by this new program? Another thing that makes some people cringe is the whole 'protect the membership' shtick. Time after time we've had the EC restrict our freedom to enjoy our hobby with rulemaking that overrides our common sense and responsibility, which is presumed to be so inferior that the EC has to think for us for our own good. That isn't good enough for some, e.g., Dave Brown, who thinks he has to override the inferior judgement of the rest of the EC that is overriding us. From my perspective, we have more than ample numbers of nannys at the club level to override individual common sense and tell us what to do so we don't hurt ourselves.
Okay, I'm skeptical. I still don't know if this program has a purpose, and if it does whose purpose is served by it.
Abel