I was just reading that story again about the sad and deadly crash in Hungary. There was one guy in there that said Hungary does not have an AMA organization, however he said he tries to follow the AMA rules when he can. He even said he's not the only one, others TRY to follow suit. Perhaps this will put some perspective to some of you guys how important it is to have such an organization like the AMA.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4274232/tm.htm

The point of the matter is that the FAA will not allow rogue RC flying and wait for a disaster like that to occur, they are much more advanced then the Hungarian gov't, believe me I know first hand, I just spent the last few days in DC meeting with them. As you can read in that post the guy was arrested and held till they sifted through all the information, only goes to show you what kind of control a gov't will take into their hands if there is no organization to step up to the plate and to support "the accused".

I can assure you combat that if the AMA folds or goes under the FAA WILL step in and take over where they failed and it's not fiction, it's fact. The American gov't is rather particular about what's flying around in their airspace without control and order. And the FCC doesn't want to take the full load of the blame seeing these planes are flying around on the frequencies which we "borrow" from the FCC. This is why we have the coast guard to protect our waterways and police to protect our roads. There are no aerial police to control 40% planes buzzing around in the same airspace as other airplanes, thus they will just throw up restrictions.