ORIGINAL: cj_rumley
ORIGINAL: bradpaul
Lost Flying Fields? Does that question include how many public parks, school yards, parking lots with adjacent open land and other usual parkflyer sites have been lost to the RC community.
That number has to be orders of magnitude larger then lost AMA Club fields.
Indubitably. What can/should AMA be doing about it? Many AMA members use such flying sites, by choice or because there is no club site (or membership opening) in their locale. Seems like obtaining and keeping them should be at least as high a priority as it is for club flying sites.
Just what can they do. They have a support system in place that club can contact to get
PR material to use as ammo to sell themselves. The number of AMA members has been in steady decline over the past few years and more than likely the slide will continue. I don't know about were your city's economic situation but ours sucks there's just no money for specialty groups such as ours not to mention enough land available for our use.. There just isn't enough money to finance a new every field that's lost. Here we can't even use a city park due to city ordinances that specifically band RC Aircraft in a city park. So what do we do. Were going it alone found the property signed a long term lease and now are in the process off financing the project.
Mike