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ORIGINAL: littlecrankshaf
ORIGINAL: aeajr
I am sorry, but I don't understand your comment about closed venues. Can you explain?
A great example would be as we have here.
There are many city properties/parks or other places that could accommodate park flying here but due to city ordinance that was prompted by some previous negotiations of an
old AMA club there is now a city wide ban of RC at parks. If it weren’t for
new TUFF club that petitioned the city for a useable site for park flyers there would be none at all for the park flyers. Our club has went the extra mile to promote park flying…
for real. Now the public park flyers have a place to fly at zero cost to them.
BTW
it was the TUFF club that coined the two pound park flyer criteria long before AMA conceived this program. Although we did not take action to promote the club it has been a very real side benefit.
WE have successfully grown the hobby here as well as the AMA. We routinely transform park flyers into ever greater engaged enthusiasts. It is not an uncommon reality to meet a fellow flyer here that started with an under 2# electric, made possible by TUFF’s actions, flying a large scale gasser now. Just a few years ago that would have been very uncommon to say the least. Our club truly understands what it takes to grow the hobby as well as the AMA.
I truly believe that is the
real answer…
promote the hobby first and foremost and the AMA will be just fine. BY promoting the AMA first and foremost a prolonged inevitable agonizing demise will be the ultimate result for the AMA as well as our hobby.
That is an a wonderful success story. I would love to know more. from what you said, it sounds like you fly all kinds and sizes of planes at this field, sind you talk about large scale gassers.
What was the key thing that helped you change the mind of the community?
Clearly if you have a community wide ban on RC flying it can be tough to promote the hobby.
Did someone setp forward wtih the space? Was this an unused piece of land? Please, tell us more.
Although not particularly germane to the thread topic but since you asked and as a mod you have an apparent clout to skew the tangent and not to answer you would be very rude…so here goes..
"What was the key thing that helped you change the mind of the community?"
First off it was important to show how important it is for the city to have space available for such a safe and worthwhile hobby such as ours. Our hobby truly is a wholesome family oriented activity unlike many other activities today where the parents sit on the sideline. This hobby allows real interaction between kids and their parents. A great thing IMO...far better than baseball...
yep I said that! So it wasn't so hard with the right motives and mindset.
One thing we were very mindful of was not to portray the hobby as some dangerous activity that only some
qualified (????yea right) AMA member should be allowed to participate in.
"Did someone setp forward wtih the space? Was this an unused piece of land? Please, tell us more."
The place selected was North Side Park. This park was once a baseball complex and a previous city dump that was often used for RC flying since at least back in the early eighties. It was one of my and my friend’s favorite places to fly back then.
It still is today.