Actually, according to our club president of 30 yrs. You can fly one time without having AMA with an AMA member with his plane & a buddy box, with the trainer master radio in the AMA member's hands. As in he can flip the switch on you & take control of the aircraft at anytime. This is a one time deal, from then on you need to be an AMA member to join or guest fly at our club. Now I haven't personally looked this up in the AMA rules, I'm just going by what I was told by our president. Who I assume wouldn't allow anything to go on that might endanger our club.

The above mentioned Introductory Trial Membership for the AMA is a good deal. It is how I originally started last year. It cost you $19.99 & is good for 90 days. If you decide to go to full open membership before these 90 days are up it will only cost you $38.99 then you will be an open member in good standing for the remainder of the year. It just makes it a little easier to get started the right way so you aren't looking at full AMA dues, club initiation & club dues all at the same time. Once you're in, the club intiation fees or runway assessment fee as some clubs like to call it, is usually only a one time thing then it's just your yearly AMA dues of $58.99 plus your yearly club dues whatever they may be.