ORIGINAL: bevar
Gerry,
Try to fly at Markham Park without AMA membership and you will be denied entry. Try to fly anyway and the park rangers will ask you to leave. Continue to fly and you will get arrested for trespassing. You will also be escorted off the field used by the PBRCA (a public county park) if you try to fly without AMA membership by the Sheriff's Department. The Bush Pilot's field is also the same way. The county REQUIRES AMA membership to use the facility...period.
What exactly did you ask the AMA?
Beave
ORIGINAL: gjhinshaw
I thought so too. So I called AMA and talked to Todd..... He said I was right.. Call AMA... 1-800-I-FLY-AMA
God I wish we could have that here!
At the now closed Mile Square Park field in Fountain Valley, CA, less than 1/2 mile from my house, no membership of any kind was required! Hell we even used to have problems enforcing frequency control! I remember I actually gave up RC flying for a few years after getting shot down six too many times by people who would just show up, turn on that new ARF & radio they just bought at the local hobby shop and start flying!
At times, the current Apollo Field, just north of LA is not much better! Both of these are/were city owned fields with no restrictions as to who can show up and fly. I guess it's just that Wild West attitude. Makes for very interesting flying at times!
David S