I'll take a break in the action to ask a favor-
Hey
50%plane-
If it aint trouble, you mind knockin about a dozen $ off your sig? You're sig is givin me scrollbars on a 17" @1024, everybody else's posts fit just fine. Thanx if you do, if not... whatever.
OK guys, back to the AMA fighting-
I still can't figure out why the headquarters for a warm weather sport were put in a majority cold weather area vs ANYWHERE south.. If you want it central then Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas etc... Just anywhere with a better climate for hmmmm RC
...how about putting the money back into the membership and try to purchase land in each state for a regional site. In turn that would attract more members to the hobby and make a large permanent site. We would be talking about $200,000 per state to buy some land in a semi rural area for a flying site and more important I believe would be that a majority of the membership would actually get to use or at least visit it.. $200,000 would buy a NICE rural flying site!!!!
Ya'll should be lookin at a great source of land- The BLM
Last time I checked, the Bureau of Land Management had a few acres left... well, a few million acres. Get a field, not on the edge of BLM land like everyone else wants to grab, but a good 10-15miles in.
A. Dont have to worry about condos getting built & getting kicked out
B. Even 40% jets will have a LOOOONG way to go before hitting anything worth more than $2
C. Just ludicrous squaremiles of BLM land is where it snows 5 days or less a year. Tons of it have less than 7" rain a year.
D. Your AMA clubs already get County Park leases, just up the ante to Fed level land leases, rather than postage stamp sized lots in cities with noise restrictions and whatnot.