The dynamic has changed, no doubt about it. Before the electric revolution, if someone wanted to get into rc flying, they had to buy a IC plane and all that goes with it, and they usually had to fly at an AMA sanctioned field. They were "forced" to join AMA.
All that has changed, but the "good old boys" in Muncie have not changed their thinking. As so may of you have stated, if someone buys an electric, they feel no need to join the AMA, they cannot justify spending $58.00 a year for something they see no benefit from. Also, a large number of heli fliers have written off the AMA because they are off flying at a non-sanctioned field, and they, too, see no benefit to joining an organization that they perceive to be a bunch of old fixed-wing farts.

Unless Dave Brown and the rest ofthe EC get their poop in a group, we will continue to see the AMA membership do a steady decline.