Bill

Please excuse my tardiness in responding. I did not realize that you had edited your post and assumed that you had abandoned this thread. I received an e-mail asking why I had not responded to you. My fault, not yours.

Let me add a couple of things to the timeline.
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On or about August 12, Christian Anderson, City of San Diego Real Estate Assets Department , issued a statement that the City had NOT closed the Torrey Pines site down. Subsequently, the City called a couple of meetings that were attended by the modelers and Torrey Pines Gliderport /Mr. Jebb. The meetings were not particularly productive, since the City did not supply a neutral third party negotiator. The intent of the City to bring the two sides together seems clear. Letters on the Gliderking site, referring to this meetings would seem to validate the desire by the City. Carl Maroney was aware of these items and you can verify that with him.
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On or about Aug 26, Carl Maroney of the AMA made this statement available to the modelers, as evidenced by a letter on Gliderking dated Aug. 26

Statement from Carl Maroney of the AMA:

Insurance coverage for all members and clubs utilizing the Torrey Pines
Glider port site, along with the City of San Diego, has been temporarily
suspended by AMA's liability insurer, Royal Insurance Company. This
suspension of coverage is the result of serious allegations by Glider port
Flight Director, David Jebb over his interpretation of violations of the AMA
National Safety Code at the site. The suspension of coverage will remain in
effect until Royal Insurance Company is fully satisfied that any resumption
of RC Glider flying at the site will be in full compliance with the AMA
National Safety Code and that the code is properly enforced.
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Bill, knowing this, why would Dr. Frank have requested that modelers from all over the world, literally, write to the City, knowing full well that the problem was with the insurance and not with the City? This was once again evidenced in the agreement that is posted on Gliderking resolving all of the problems, but with the proviso that it would be dependent on the reinstatement of insurance, either form AMA or someone else. Again, I do not understand what the intent of Dr. Frank was in calling for the letters and petitions. I assume that he was in touch with Carl and had the information that I have related here, is that correct?

As far as my timing, I had intended to ask this some time ago, in another thread titled "AMA helpful to modelers" that was closed by a moderator, literally, as I was typing the post. This is the first opportunity that has come up since. If you question this, I questioned the administrator at the time of the closing and he may have a record of it.

JR

Just as an aside, the insurance issue was reported in the minutes of the Oct EC meeting with the admonishment that it could happen again. Royal suspended coverage without any communication with the AMA. LOL. I do NOT blame Dr. Frank for that.