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Of course it won't improve your flying skill, but it does insure you won't interfere with or be interfered by other RCers. I think it safe to assume that no club would apply for AMA charter with a SS-only restriction unless there was anticipation of frequency conflicts with another site. This would only be an existing AMA club within 3 miles of the proposed club site, in which case AMA would not charter the new club w/o a freq mgmt agreement. AMA does not recognize the existence of non-AMA clubs/flying sites, and they therefore do not appear in AMAs locator database, so there would be no need for the new club to impose such a restriction on themselves to acquire AMA charter. If such a condition were agreed to, AMA would have no legitimate reason to turn away the new club, nor can I imagine why they would, even if the frequency management agreement were completely one-sided; that is, the new club agrees to operate only on SS, precluding any conflict with the existing club and so existing club has no standing in the matter of chartering the new club.

Very topical issue - yes OP, it is time for AMA to make a policy change/statement on this question.

Abel