Well, if Dave meant what he said, then PPP will either become self supporting, or go down the tubes, won't it? Since park flying isn't your hobby, I'm sure that either result would make you happy. Or will you still remain unhappy even if it becomes self supporting with the lower dues structure?

By the way, do you fly control line or fee flight, or indoors? Helicopters? I don't. I'm a sport flyer. THat's my hobby. I wonder how much of my dues, and yours, go to support other areas that aren't your's or my "hobby"? Are those areas totally self-supporting?

My point here is this: (And this isn't directed just at you) Are we paying dues to AMA to support only "our" part of the hobby or to support the hobby as a whole? Did you really mean what you said above in not wanting any of your dues to be used to support AMA programs in which you don't participate...ie, not "your" hobby?

Are those that fly smaller planes in a park somewhere, that are not powered by glow or gas engines really participating in a different hobby? I think that may be at the heart of much of the opposition to the Park Flyers program.