Hey Orange, Its not a license its a membership, you have to join the AMA in order to fly at sanctioned fields or events,, you "get" secondary insurance if you fly at those fields only,, and you get a 1 year subs. to the Magazine, and I think its $58/year... so if your parkflying or on your land its only gonna be a high dollar magazine............even your local club if you have one will probably have to be AMA in order for you to fly... Rog