I can say I agree with your points. I hate to keep on hammering the AMA magazine, but it's going right back to where it was a couple years ago. If your not into CL or FF and did not know any other type of flying was going on you would think that all other types of flying were on the fringe. Like R/C.

I read the last MA in about 20 minutes. That's probably 10 minutes longer than it should have taken. Hey they did a fairly good job on the ProBro event. When did that happen, middle of last summer? You can open up any other R/C magazine or should I say flying magazine and you would be lucky to even find anything about FF or CL. These guys that produce this fine magazine are really with it.

What really tears me up about the articles in MA is the lag time. What I mean is they are reporting on events that happened 4 and 5 months ago or longer. It's a good thing this crew does not produce your local news paper. You would be reading about the gas prices this up coming July 4 2006. I did mean 2006.

As for the insurance issue that is a total joke. It makes me think of comparing your auto insurance to your home owners insurance. When was the last time your Home Owners picked up what happened in your car and then your auto insurance kicked-in and picked up the balance. That insurance thing is just a hook, plain and simple.

The whole insurance and Magazine thing reminds me of the old bait and switch. Look at all you get for 58 bucks. Then after you join reality kicks in. Kind of reminds me of a used car salesman I used to know or should I say rather not known.

With all that being said I have been an AMA member for several years, and I truly believe we need an organization to speak for us with one voice, and it is a thread that binds all of us together. But AMA should not be sold as something it is not. The AMA has done allot of good over the years. NO one can take that away. And it does provide several services that we all need.

Maybe it is time for a complete overhaul of the AMA. Maybe it's time for a completely new board of directors and President on down. How about some people in there that are forward thinking like they used to be 20 or 30 years ago. I am no spring chicken by any means but the AMA powers to be are looking more and more like an old mans club, and not a progressive organization that is out there actively and aggressively promoting the hobby and really pushing hard for new members.