I was talking to some RC friends, who aren't in the AMA, and when I mentioned that I have a membership, they asked if it was the "old-timey R/C club". When I inquired further, they stated that it seemed that the AMA was only associated with the older people who built nothing but scale warbirds and didn't know how to perform any aerobatics past a roll or loop... a bit condescending, yes, but maybe if this is a widespread association (which it may or may not be, I don't know) the AMA should look at it and see what they can do differently.

Another story... some years ago there was a gentleman at a club I was a member at who told me, after watching a few pilots do some post-stall maneuvers, that such maneuvers were never "meant" to happen... what the hell kind of moronic, static and ignorant statement is this? From that logic would follow that airplanes were never "meant" to fly in the first place. Then he stated, proudly, that he was glad the AMA did not approve of "such maneuvers"... I didn't know the AMA did and did not approve certain maneuvers as "legal" and "illegal".

Anyway, it seems that, from what I have read here, and in MA, and elsewhere, the AMA seems to be a "stick-in-the-mud" organization - unable and/or unwilling to make changes. It is my opinion that change is the one good thing that can ever happen to anything or anyone - change = progress.