Yes, combatpigg as demonstrated in this thread there are GOM and GYM and GMAM that run prospective flyers off the fields and out of the hobby.

As for 804, the original post was dated I believe in 2004 when the Park Flyers were just hitting stride, the AMA was on the slow decline, they had elimated Nationals traveling around the country so they could pound their chest about that complex in Muncie, older flyers were disappering either due to age and/or money, AMA was stalled in the mud and muck of past history and at the same time this entire new group of possible members were being run off by the GOM.

So, why does it have to grow? There is strength in numbers and charisma and if you need more proof just check out the current national leadership of the United States.

IMO we as a nation are being pushed down a path that some consider, right now today, is at the doorstep of socialism.