"the guy from the county really perked his ears up when I talked to him about the liability issue"

and folks wonder why nonmembers hate ama
for trying to get legal public flying shutdown so the club wont have to follow the Fed rules about sharing the freqs.


Frank & PKH are on the mark.
The "existing" bit is just AMA rules to restrict AMA members, without any bearing whatsoever to restrict nonmembers. Hoss is right on the mark that you have acknoledged the existance of freq conflic and so you are now bound by AMA rules to not fly while the nonmembers have no such restriction.

You have to remember that the Fed gave The People those freqs,
with the rule that you cant interfere with a freq in use.
That means the moment a club switches off the tx anyone nearby is free to start using it. There is no site 'dibs' or established/existing reservations for the public freqs. My extreme case example of that is how the non-members can just switch on 3 mins before the club site is open for the day and the club cannot interfere with that freq that is use.

By posting that you know about the conflict, you probably just opened a world of liability for your club. The club has to follow AMA rules on freq conflicts, and if the nonmembers want to gripe to your AMA District Freq Dude guess who the ama district guy will shutdown till a freq sharing plan is signed by both parties.

We have to share the public freqs.
Just because you've been lucky and had nobody around to share with so far doesnt mean you are exempted from the Fed sharing requirements. And any AMA actions will be to shutdown the club flying till there is a sharing plan.... the nonmembers will still fly while you are shutdown.



We get this topic alot.
Your choices are to use the public 72 freqs that you have to share moment by moment,
or the 2.4 that practically eliminate detrimental interference with other users,
or scrape up a bunch of money and get some freqs from the feds for your own use.