This forum has always attracted a disproportionate number of habitual malcontents, who seem to tke great delight in being critical of just about everything that the AMA Headquarters staff in Muncie, or the Executive Council, does!
HA! There's only one solution-let us run the AMA.[sm=lol.gif]
In essence your statement above is not accurate, it is again only a perception based on the fact that parents and adults no longer want to take the time to introduce their children to the hobbies, not the fact that the kids don't want to learn about it, because they most certainly do and then some. When I first entered this hobby some 3 years ago, I didn't see too many kids at the field and I knew something was wrong right from the get go. But what I did see a bunch of grumpy old men frown every time they saw a 10 year old kid learn how to fly better then they do in only 3 trips to the field. That was always fun to watch.
This is one of the reasons I can't stand seeing all this negativity. Instead of bashing and whining about the AMA go out and do something about it, you may just be part of something big. How hard could it be to be a VP or assistant VP? Start a lobby group, but be smart about it. Get petitions going if you don't like a certain policy. All you guys are doing by making the comments that you're making, to the club that YOU BELONG TOO, is hurting it. SHUT UP AND HELP IT! If the thread starter had any respect for the AMA he would at least change the title of the thread, not to damage it any more. A lot of people come to RCU for the first time and read crap like that, doesn't help.
Darn.[&o]Why did you have to go and write something that I agree with?
I'll agree about much of the membership hurting the AMA grow older each year. When I was learning how to fly, I saw mainly older gentlemen at the field. One of these just happened to be my grandfather. He taught me how to fly. If it wasn't for him, I probably wouldn't have stuck it out. Also, at some fields that I have flown at, it appears to be a bunch of grumps swapping war stories or crash stories.(I actually like hearing these though, but the rest of the kid population probably doesn't) STL, as far as your second paragraph goes, I hope you will consider running for something in the AMA.(even though your view of world comp representation is wrong
) I would be doing it if I could. As far as the threads here, it seems that only the negative ones get read. I've posted a few positive ones, but with the exception of one, they really didn't go anywhere.
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