Our Club the (Shawnee Mission Radio Control Club ) have for many years trained new pilots for free with membership to the club and of course the AMA. We close the field to normal flying every Tuesday night , one group of instructors inspect the aircraft and teach set-up , then the pilots give flight instruction . This is also in cooperation with one of the LHS which gives a little discount on supplies and such. I feel the time of the LHS giving instructions died when the Mom and Pop shops died. As we have stated many times the hobby has become a recreational activity, there is very little pride involved with owning an ARF, and even less gratification in flying one, but it is still FUN. I built every plane I owned up until a couple years ago when I decided to give ARF and OPs(other peoples) a try. Untill you have built and flown your own creation you will not understand the differance. This does not mean the Recreational hobbyist or ARFs are not important to Model Aviation, And I certainly don't mean builders are any better people than recreational hobbyists. And although I understand times change I don't feel we should have to Cater to the wants of some of the Recreational Pilots to learn fast and right now. If new people can't show a little patients then they are not going to last in this hobby anyway. I've put up with alot of BS from students wanting to learn to do loops and rolls before they can even do a figure 8 or straight and level flight , these are not people that want to learn Model Aviation, they want to do whats Cool at the time , they will get bored and move on to something else before the seasons over, I wonder many times why I waste my time. Anyhow this turned more into a vent than a constructive post, Anyway my point being I don't believe the AMA can do much for training on a national basis, it can help to set up more training programs on local levels ,but that requires the club and members to want to do it .