AMA has ignored the sport flier, and particularly the RC sport flier, for decades, keeping them in the fold with the insurance carrot. Now, we have electrics that can perform and can do so at the local park or school grounds with very little danger to anyone - probably a lot safer than baseball or soccer. Since AMA insurance is much less a factor, or no factor at all, what can AMA offer? I see AMA membership continuing to decline with the migration to parkfliers and other electrics until the headquarters operational costs force higher membership fees that inturn reduce the membership.

MA is a magazine that tries to make everyone happy and makes nobody happy and only exists because it has a captured subscriber base. Where is the sport flier covered - and I don't mean the beginner. Further, we continue to see articles, like the review of the two UC ARFs in one issue, which are for a small percentage of the membership - maybe 2% - while the majority go wanting. This is just a continuation of regular publication of UC articles because this is Bob Hunt's area of interest and probably all he knows. He should be read the riot act or dumped! AMA recently commented that they were caught by surprise at the growth on interest base of electrics - where were they in the past several years - with their heads in the sand?

I think AMA officials see the future and it is a much smaller AMA if an AMA at all.

Paul