Heh, this is another one of those moments where I agree with you. I wonder how many park flyer pilots KNOW of AMA, know what it does, and still doesn't join ONLY because it costs a little too much. In my experience, they either didn't know AMA well enough to understand the benefits of joining, or they HAD researched it and decided it wasn't for them no matter the price. This e-ticket will mainly just give many of the current park flyer members a discount (if they never use sanctioned fields). This is certainly not the "boost" AMA is looking for.

What AMA should be talking about is how to get their name into the parks. Right now, the only way a Park Flyer discovers AMA is by having a member approach him. Do you think a special discount will inspire more members to appraoch Park Flyers, especially when the membership won't be valid at their flying site? Probably NOT.

STLPilot, you mentioned how the e-ticket was modeled after the Sport Flyer license. However, the Sport Flyer license works because people still have to go through the "gate" of schools to be allowed to fly. The students still come to them. The introduction of park flyer airplanes has removed the "gate" of having to go through a chartered flying site.

If the purpose is to "get them hooked" with a lower price, then the junior membership and Introductory membership already does that. Price is not the issue...insufficient publicity is.