Regardless of how I may feel about AMA everyone please stop spewing this dribble. AMA has nothing to do with whether you fly at the field or not. It is the landlord and those who lease the field that decide the requirements to fly. There are several fields in the US that both AMA and non-AMA flyer's fly at. You only need AMA to belong to an AMA chartered Club. The club only relates to the people not the flying site. Since for the longest time AMA has been the only game in town so this rumor has grown to the point where people actually believe it.