ORIGINAL: Gremlin Castle SNIP
The AMA and clubs will always exist because of the efforts of the dedicated and sometimes misguided efforts of a dedicated few.
As for the AMA, yes I care that it exists because there is no viable alternative out there. I do wonder though whether the apathy of the general membership has allowed an internal structure to take hold that will prove fatal in the next several years.
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Your first remarks seemed to indicate you felt we might just ignore everything and sweep it under the rug where it will disappear because everything was right, well close to right in the world. If I misunderstood them, sorry. While I agree with some of your comments and hope the first sentence of the above quote is true, but I am beginning to question that wisdom. Renewals seem to be down about 5% which adds up. That is why I started this thread.
I also am a contributing member of three clubs. From what I have seen, club members appear to have about 20% involvement at some undefined level. I say undefined because I rarely see the meeting attenders at the flying field and those I see at the flying field are seen as visitors from afar at the club meetings. That holds for all three clubs. I bet it is similar to yours. In the one club, we lost TWO flying fields last year and started a new one. You know how much fun that is!
The question is what can we create that will help address those apathy issues within the AMA and our own clubs? Remember, this is to be an all inclusive answer rather than a targeted one to me, or you, or our clubs. That is the challenge and we both know it is possible, we just have to find the right mix of open communicating minds.