Have you read Koranda's last message in the Nov. issue of AMA's Model Aviation? In addition to that article, I have recently reviewed over most of his other articles since his first.

While I had some contentions about the use of his "marketing AMA" I think I may have jumped the gun a bit there. I related to such as the DVD things more-so than such items as now really bringing AMA to the forefront in the magazine.

Now I still have questions; Koranda remained at the 'back-of-the-book' while such as Bob Hunt remains in the forefront almost as an AMA policy maker, and dictation of what it is time for everyone to do (p. 160, middle col.)

However the real question in my mind is this: Is there a CODE in Koranda's final message? He relates a number of challenging issues. Did he foresee the end? Was he telling us that there was far too much disarray within the AMA hierarchy for a man with vision and experience to get by individual EC/MA-staff personal goals so as to accomplish AMA Bylaws' objectives?
I think Koranda was probably used to more operational lattitude than he found at AMA. He seemed to have the problems identified, yet was refused the authority to get to the meat of those problems. That is further saddened since increasing the membership plus making people aware of the sport was frequently mentioned in his articles.

It's too bad that a man, with the problems identified, and an objective of increasing the membership had to be a salaried employee, subject to the whims of a few entrenched self-serving individuals rather than a national member-elected, hard-***** personality that is focused on those same problem areas.

Have you broken the code?

edit: spelling / wrong words plus an addition.