Maybe AMA should pitch it differently, you know those annoying comercials for kids over in indonesia? I think they should take a spin off that! "For a little more than $1 a day, you can help keep a modeler off the streets, give him a flying field and see him fly his plane, please, won't you help?" And the pan shot is of a little kid with a broken airplane standing infront of a cow pasture!?
Seriously, it's just a little over $1 dollar a day, my freakin car insurance for my pathetic jeep cherokee is more than the things worth and more in one payment than the AMA membership. Yes I do believe that the "non-profit" thing is nothing more than an accounting practice, I think the AMA should spend the money on promoting the hobby around the country insted of a so called "Mecca" in muncie. Possibly a traveling roadshow and open houses along the way at AMA fields, all expenses paid. I'm sure alot of clubs do this, but they have to do it themselves, out of membership dues for the club, it'd be nice to see AMA pull up with a trailer and pull out an event.
I got a little off track, but I buy auto insurance for my POS jeep, to cover me driving
I buy health insurance to cover my for illness and injury
I have renters insurance to cover where I live and all my possesions or the building incase I do something stupid
But if something bad happens and it's my fault, I could have my rates go through the roof, but AMA won't cancel your membership nor will your rates for them go up, it's still $58 bucks. I used to fly renegade for years, club presidents knew this and let me fly because they just took me under thier wing and said I was a guest, well I finally realized that it wouldn't be fair to keep doing that so I sucked up and bought it to be nice. I realize that right now with people losing jobs and the national unemployment rate hovering at 17% makes it tough, but if you saved $1.11 a day, you'd be covered for the next year.