ORIGINAL: Bob Mitchell
ORIGINAL: Stickbuilder
Enjoy your hobby, just don't expect me to subsidize your hobby for you. It ain't my place to front you the money. If you want to play, you ought to pay.
ORIGINAL: Stickbuilder
It's your money, and you should be able to contribute it to whomever you wish. It's also my money, and I should be able to not contribute to whomever YOU wish.
Bill, AMA 4720
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.
The rest of, "Those other parts of the hobby" that you don't consider yours (C/L, F/F, rubber, indoor, helicopters) all are required to be open members, and pay their full share. You don't subsidize anything for them. They have been around since before R/C was anything but a gleam in the Good Brothers eyes (with the exception of helicopters).
As to your question to whether or not the PPP are participating in a different hobby; according to the AMA, they are. Otherwise why a different tier of membership for them?
How many times do I have to tell you that I am against any tier of membership (regardless of the price) that does not allow those who's actions within the hobby are governed by an orgainzation that will not allow the members to have a voice in that organization. If you can't vote, you have no voice. How much more plain can I be, and you still not comprehend what I have, and am now telling you?
You claim that you are intelligent enough to comprehend the AMA rules that you have read (sic), and yet you keep missing my point completely.
Bill, AMA 4720