ORIGINAL: Stickbuilder
READ THE PART THAT STARTS I WISH AMA FEE WAS 1000 DOLLARS......
ORIGINAL: captinjohn
I have been with the AMA and will have too if I fly at AMA scantioned fields. I have many privite places to fly where I do not need it. I am just saying the AMA needs a new system of dues which should be determined by a more fair way of charging members. Why should a kid with a electric plane or a person who flies very little pay the same as the rich do for insurance that fly killer helies with big chopper blades or a guy with a Big high powered plane. You know the planes that cost $5000. dollars and up? The most fair way ...would be to pay by the value of your equipment and how much you fly and last if you compete. Just like AUTO insurance. The extra cost the AMA encounters by doing so can be tacked onto the rich RC boys that basically pay the same as us nobody,s Capt,n
Because the definition of, "Fair", is that it applies equally to all. Fair means that is something costs a dollar, then it costs everyone a dollar. When pricing is set at the person's ability to pay, It's called Socialism. When someone is forced to pay for someone who cannot pay, then that is called Communism. Are you a child, or an adult? If you are an adult, why do you want me to have to pay your way? That is what you are really asking me to do is it not? "Snivel, whine, I can't afford to fly model planes, so somebody needs to make the mean old men who have worked and saved to be able to enjoy things pay for me to get to play too". BULL PUKKY!
I will not be forced to pay for your entry into this hobby. There is no nickle beer, and there is no free lunch. Pony up. If you wants to play, you gots to pay. Simple enough. Go big, or go home. I'm tired of the missing and poaning about who can and who cannot afford to pay the AMA fees and club dues. I'll be honest. I WISH THAT THE AMA FEES WHERE $1000.00 per year, and the average club dues were $2000.00. Then we would not be bothered by the junk flyers. Am I elitest? Maybe, but I do know that when you put a low performance model airplane in close proximity with a high performance model airplane, there will be problems. Mid-air collisions will be a normal occurrance. (hey, maybe this will work out after all) You do something stupid, and we mid-air, you have to pay for my airplane. This is promising. You are out of the model airplane business, because you could only afford to buy just one, plus you have to pay for the damage to my plane, caused by your low performance flying, and I get a new plane. Works for me. Oh...You can't afford to repair or replace my plane? Why are you here?
If you can afford a set of golf clubs, does that mean that you should be able to play golf for free? or at a reduced rate, simply because you do not have the income to support the game?
Who do you think you are to dictate the cost of belonging to the AMA or a club based upon someone's income? How dare you do this? This is a hobby. This is not a life. Hobbies are by definition, expensive. This is an expensive hobby. There is great potential for loss in this hobby. If you cannot afford to lose your investment, or if you cannot afford to belong to the group that set's the policies, or makes the rules (AMA and local Clubs) then you do not belong in this hobby.
If you paid $150.00 for your park flyer, why do you think that you should not have to pay the full AMA price, or belong to a club to fly at the field? You are deriving as much fun from the hobby as is the person who has thousands of dollars tied up (no I won't insult you by using the word investment) in this hobby. Why, then, should you pay less? Get real, this is not going to happen. ever! I will not pay your way. You should be embarassed to want me to.