ORIGINAL: Jim_McIntyre
I view insurance as a given, frequencies as well.
But ... if that's all MAAC were to offer, I suggest the hobby would be in serious jeapardy ...
We are in tentative agreement here. In addition to providing insurance and frequency protection, MAAC, or some sort of local or regional organization, forces a degree of discipline upon the modelling population. People being people, without a "governing" organization there would be an unsafe and chaotic morass of modelling behaviours. No frequency discipline, no regard for disturbance, or risk to the population at large and no reasonably structured training process would exist. There would also be no cohesive competition rules, although that probably wouldn't bother a large number of modellers.