ORIGINAL: 2slow2matter
RCKen,
I would EMPLORE you not to drop your AMA charter. The AMA does wonderful things for us, including trying to protect our frequencies and such. They are an intergal part of our hobby, and we should all support it as much as possible. Our club membership is only 10 bucks per year, and we somehow pay for it. If necessary, increase your dues by five or ten bucks per year.
Thanks for showing concern, but we dropped our charter 2 years ago. You have to understand our situation. We haven't had a club in 15 years, the field is located on an Army Base. Right now we have 10-15 regular flyers. When it's time to do flied maintenance we all just roll up our sleeves and get it done. Like I said, it's been over 2 years since we've been AMA chartered. Before that we had a "paper club", meaning we paid our AMA dues for "the club" and had the charter. But then the AMA changed it's rules for clubs that the same person couldn't keep the same "elected" post for more than 2 years, so it got to be too much of a hassle for us. Now, before you tell me about the insurance for the flying site please know that the AMA insurance only covers events at your field such as fun flys and that sort. We all are required to have AMA insurance by the Army and our AMA insurance covers us as long as the AMA flying rules are posted at the field, which they are.
Trust me, we've researched this completely even to the point of having several attorney's look at it. There is nothing that the AMA did for our "club" that made it worthwhile for us in our situation. We all still have our individual AMA memberships to cover us.