Originally posted by Hossfly
C_ Watkins: "For someone to want to come to your club, and make money teaching folks,
in my opinion they should be expecting to pay rent on the field. (much higher dues at least)
Same with the AMA. We all pay the same (most of us) price for regular coverage.
Perhaps the AMA should have a separate class of insurance for paid instructors.
I dunno."
Maybe you would be a bit better informed if you read the proposal as presented in the AMA forum.
Horace... I have read YOUR proposal very well.
I am very aware of what YOUR proposal suggests.
However, if you think that you're the only one with an eye toward
the dollar in RC flight instruction, then you are sadly mistaken.
If you think YOUR way is the only way that will ever be discussed, you are wrong.
My comments were made for all eyes, not just yours.
This thread did mention your post, but hasn't stuck entirely to it, in the first place.
Probably the experienced pilots here shouldn't have even responded at all.
At any rate... your condescension habit is a bit unbecoming.
The single bone of contention mentioned in your letter to the EC was stated this way:
Originally posted by Hossfly
AMA does not, at this time, recognize and/or provide insurance for the commercial flight instructor or any commercial instruction on a Chartered Club facility/property.
The resolution of that can take MANY forms, not necessarily the one YOU suggest.
As such, some of us believe it's better to not even consider it.
Some of us believe the AMA should NOT recognize and/or provide insurance for
commercial instructors or institutions on AMA sanctioned fields at all.
I stand by my opinion (you know... other people DO have them) that the commercial
instructors and flight schools can find their own insurance, and their own fields.
IF the AMA wants to provide such insurance to instructors/schools, that's fine.
IF the AMA wants to allow paid instruction on AMA club fields, IF the club wants- Fine.
Let the schools/instructors... not the clubs... work that insurance out with the AMA.
Don't involve the club charter with it, is MY opinion. Allowing paid instruction at
AMA fields should be at the discretion AND pricing schedule of the individual
CLUB, and not tied to the club's charter with the AMA. The clubs themselves should be
deciding if and/or when this instruction could occur, and how much it costs the flight schools.