Joe

Once again, you are stating things that have no basis in fact. Show me one place, just one, where there is any statement from any AMA elected official about raising insurance rates. Not your interpretation, but, where it is stated. Show me one place where Dave Brown stated that he IS going to cut weights, just one. Not what you think he said, but, what he said. You may need to look up the definitions of: might, perhaps, maybe, opinion, and several other words.

You want the wieght raised. Become part of the process to provide statistics to prove it is safe. Get a waiver. If you are not willing to do that, you have no complaint coming. You are neither being prosecuted nor defended, at least not where the AMA is concerned.

As to my personal tastes: I have attended more TOC's than I have missed. I love to watch larger planes. At the same time, I have never felt quite as vulnerable as I did sitting packed in grand stands where I knew I could never avoid a plane if it impacted those stands. I certainly would not have sat in them with pilots of a lesser caliber.

JR