LOL. What in the heck is the "AMA scope"?

Now you are making it up as you go along. Show me something, anything, anywhere that says that.

Rhetoric does not pass for fact.

To carry this a little further, you try to cloud the seperation between the AMA and an AMA chartered club.

The AMA does not tell the AMA charted club how to conduct itself. That goes for everything from it's organization to it's policies about who may fly. The AMA neither tells the club that it must be democratic nor that only AMA members may fly at the club's field. Yes, there are requirements to become a chartered club, but they go to things like not allowing prejudice (in the traditional sense) and requiring all flying members of a charted club be AMA members. Whether a club choses to charter with the AMA is a decision made by the club.

If insurance is an issue, it is made an issue by the club. There are some very good reasons that most club's that have complete control of a field do not allow non-AMA members to fly there. They are based in good sense and self-preservation.

When you chose to say AMA and mean the national organization and the charted club interchangeably, that is flat wrong.

While we are at it, lets make the distinction about sanctioned events. CD's sanction an event through the AMA. The sanctioned event may or may not be affiliated with a club. The sanctioned event may or may not be flown at a club field. The CD is THE authority at any AMA sanctioned event.

JR