For all the AMA haters out there who very likely are unaware of the fact that chartering an AMA club provides as the charter process Primary (not secondary) insurance for a named property holder of a listed flying site by the club.

Our field is owned by the municiple airport and what this means is the first year I did not personally truck over to the Airport Authority office the insurance declaration papers nameing the airport authority we would be out on our butts, its as simple as that. There is no way we could ever provide sufficient primary insurance for the landowner any other way nor would we have ever been able to acquire our wonderful site 15 years ago without the AMA.

I suspect this is not an unusual situation all across the US and many other clubs. So remember its wonderful that some may enjoy flying in their back yard but trying to destroy the AMA with uninformed grumbling could also destroy a large number of fields all accross the US and that indeed could seriously affect the market and perhaps you may not have as many neet airplanes to fly in your backyard anymore.

Just a slightly different perspective.

John