I dont buy them other magazines,
but from what I hear, they put 'free' plans in the magazine... back some years I bought a magazine that had a pull out plan.

Is it your position that they had no valid reasons to put plans in their magazine?
Or are there indeed valid reasons to give away a plan once in a while,
particularly for an academy that is supposed to be after promoting all aspects of aeromodeling above chasing profits.

Giving away a plan and having a 4-5 issue Build Along in MA would foster more aeroMODELING than continuing to do what is being done in this receding of building.

If AMA wants more of something, they subsidize it.
There are plenty of examples of it happening,
they can subsidize Building too.


Besides, if it is done as a
Who wants this plan, to take part in the MA build along?
then the actual cost of the program would be less than making & tube shipping 150k copies... or if the response is high enough do it as a MA pull-out. It dont have to be expensive.
.... particularly if some designer "donates" a plan to AMA for the program.



I've said the OP's idea for a free plan to generate more building was a good idea,
when did I say AMA was overcharging?
The OP made 2 points, I've talked about his second but havent commented on his first.

MikeL, you need to see if a guy actually said anything about a topic
before you slam his position on it with phrases like out of touch with reality.
I am very in touch with realty, my mother was a Realtor selling houses in Vegas.