Dear Mr. Smith:

My addition to this thread was meant to illustrate what type of service you might expect when you request assistance from the AMA. Prior to the the most extreme incident noted in my prior thread, our club had requested assistance in locating airspace rights info from the AMA. No information was offered, nor was a reply to our request given. We received much more help from the Airplane Owners and Pilots Association, and they're not even involved with modeling.

I agree that the operation of an orginazation such as the AMA requires large amounts of capital, but some of it should go to the services they portray themselves to be involved in. It would be nice if all sectors of this country could have someone else provide them with a new, first class flying field and office building.

I'll make a statement that I believe to be true and correct, if you live and fly on the West Coast, you do not, and will not, have representation from the AMA. The only time one of the area Vice Presidents/representatives showed up anywhere near our flying field, he almost cost us the use of the lake we use for float flying. This due to drinking in public, unsafe flight operations in the lake parking lot, and argueing with the park rangers. If the rangers did not personally know us, the site would have been lost.



Silversurfer