When I started in the hobby there were many small flying fields here but as time has gone on there are now much fewer.
Yeah, that's the AMA's fault. It couldn't be population growth and encroaching land development squeezing fields out of existence. It couldn't be that people are less tolerant of the "annoying" than they used to be.
When was this wonderful time? Probably back when most people still had some sense of responsibility, and a simple slip-n-fall accident at a flying field didn't necessitate suing the landowner, club, or whoever else was involved into oblivion.
Yep, it's a great big consipracy by the AMA to close down ALL the fields, except Muncie of course.