I'm not convinced. Here's a couple of facts to confuse things a little:
1-- If a term in an agreement doesn't have a special definition in legal terminology, then that term is taken for its common, every-day meaning in any legal question
2-- The word _established_ is not one that is redefined for legal use, so its legal meaning is its common, every-day meaning
3-- The common, every-day meaning of the word established hinges on the established thing being set up, understood, and being agreed upon by whoever's affected by it
4-- If you choose a particular boundary (like an imaginary line extending both ways from the front of your field box, and you can see where that line is, and you can tell which side of it you're on then you have set a line -- in fact, you've set one that you can easily demonstrate having set.
5-- If you are the only one in the area to be affected by your flight operation and you have set your line (and you agree with what you've set), then everyone in the flying area demonstrably understands and agrees to that line -- so, by definition, the line is established.
6-- If there are no spectators and you have reasonably prevented the impingement of spectators into your run-up and flight operations area, then you have effectively defined everything outside of the run-up and flight operations area as a spectator area.
7-- If you have good visibility of your flight operations and run-up areas and all avenues of approach, and if you get your airplane on the ground and powered down whenever somebody approaches, before they are able to enter the area, then the defined areas will never be flight operations or run-up areas with spectators present.
8-- Having thus prevented spectator impingement on your run-up and flight operations areas, you have established a de-facto spectator area including the rest of the world. Again, using the definitions of establishing, it is easy to show that this is an established area. And again, you are the only one who needs to understand and agree to this because during flight operations you are the only one present to be affected. Spectator arrives... flight stops... there is no flight operations... nobody's flying in violation of spectator requirements of rule 4. Keep your plane in front of the line as much as possible and the rest of rule 4 is also complied with.
So what's the issue?
Is there somewhere that the AMA ever said they won't cover flying in a public place where you have permission to do so?
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ORIGINAL: RCKen
Recommending to join the AMA won't help here. In order for the AMA insurance to cover an individual they must be following all the rules from the 2006 AMA Safety Code. One line in the safety code that usually excludes those individuals that want to fly wherever they feel like is this:
4. At all flying sites a line must be established, in front of which all flying takes place. Only personnel associated with flying the model aircraft are allowed at or in front of the line. In the case of airshows demonstrations straight line must be established. An area away from the line must be maintained for spectators. Intentional flying behind the line is prohibited.
Ken