ORIGINAL: abel_pranger
ORIGINAL: fliers1
I know locally that anyone with SFA was denied access to "AMA" fields. I wonder how many other clubs would not allow SFA members to use AMA flying fields? I think that was the root complaint from SFA and it's members. I had heard that for some AMA clubs claimed they would lose their charter if they allowed SFA members on their fields. Don't know if it were true (loss of AMA coverage) or a misconception on the part of AMA members. Can anyone shed any light on the subject?
CCR
CCR-
See
http://www.modelaircraft.org/PDF-Files/909.pdf
It wasn't clubs that didn't allow SFA members (or any non-AMA members for that matter) to use AMA chartered club sites, it was/is an AMA mandate. A goodly number of clubs were chartered with both AMA and SFA. The link above is the response of AMA's insurance czar to that. AMA club's claims that they would lose their charter if they allowed SFA members on the fields are valid. They were told so directly by AMA HQ. Those that were dual chartered had the choice of dropping SFA and compelling the SFA members to join AMA, or getting the boot from AMA.
Abel
I was the NL editor of the Horizon City, TX, club during this time and thus the club contact. AMA did threaten to pull the charter and site insurance of any club that allowed SFA members to fly at the club field. I was a member of both AMA and SFA at the time. We had other SFA members in the club. We just decided that there ws no need to tell AMA about it. What they didn't know couldn't hurt us.
One thing that should be pointed out was that the SFA insurance was primary while AMA's was secondary to your homeowner's or renter's insurance, still is.
CR