I would say the AMA hasn't changed with the times and has done miserably at reaching out to younger pilots, hence the average of age of nearly 60.

The perception is the AMA is close minded...that lot of the old guys you find in clubs right on up through the ranks of the AMA are close minded. 3d flying, sonny that's not the way an airplane is supposed to fly. Electric, what the--dang sonny what is that a lipoly. Foamy, that's not a real plane. Slow, set in their ways, sluggish, dreaming of yesteryear, average age of 60, when ARF is what a dog barked (not a plane ya bought) and you stick built a plane right. A dying organization.

Increasingly, I see (I'm 30), people my age and younger tending just to fly informally in groups (gas, glow, electric whatever).