if i could get littlecrankshaf to explane i think i know were he's going , this is were i am so confused . look , like i said i don't see a problem with joining or being a member of the ama, there are fields in virginia were i am from ( and hope to oneday go back to ) originally that open there field to any ama member these same clubs come out to were i fly ( parks and schools) and join in and will invite you to there field for the day . i don't see that same comradery here in the part of florida were i'm at ( the schools are fenced and locked the county parks are small and the biggest one of those backs up to a business airport ) . i keep explaning that we are all in pursuit of the same thing  i.e. we are on the same team but the club thing makes it me against you , even if we hold the same ama card .
here is the best example i can give .......if i buy a part for my car from auto zone in virginia the same part fails when i'm in florida the auto zone in florida ( with a recept ) will replace or refund my money because they are in the same company ...
so as you explained to me the clubs are ama sanctioned and if i was a member of the ama ???? see thats were i get confused isn't it still all about the ama ???? when i first started to read stuff on the ama, i don't read into everything i look at, but no where does anyone tell you what besides insurance the ama does for you , then they start talking about declining membership in the ama and clubs nationwide , well through my thinking if the ama was getting the clubs to have a open door policey ( with a fee to fly there field i don't expect anything for free ) , then i might even go wow i really like these guys i'll join there club ..........ding , ding , ding everone just won the ama has a new member that goes out and flys on a clubs field that new ama member after a month or so decides he likes the club so to save him or her self money joins the club , it's win win so a person such as myself that may travel from time to time would also benefit from such rules . then the ama's membership would be on the rise , i think alot of the so called outlaw rc pilots would join, you'd be stupid not too at that point ....use any field for a fee that has ama sanctioned club , and think of the money it would make the clubs really it is win win , when i possed this same question to the locals they treated me like i had the plague . for me i just want 2 or 3 times a month on a monday or tuesday , so i really would not be interfering with the club and there activitys at all. i'd follow the same rules as any member would , clean up behind myself and such and hey if my stay here in florida was going to real long ( like i knew for a fact i was going to be here for the next 2 or 3 years ) and i get along with the people in the club then why not join , but right off the bat i'm the bad guy the outsider , now with the ama saying the club should have a open door policy and the ama backs there members then people would not feel like outsiders, we would all be part of something bigger . thats were my question stands why join the ama what do they do for me besides insurance ???? i'm really looking for a reason to say ok what the heck but it seems so confusing, give me your money and all i'm going to do is give you some kind of insurance but if your on the outside of what we think is wrong then your home owners insurance will have to cover it ???? my home owners covers it anyway so what the **** . see thats what i can't figure out. one more example for you when i was young i raced bmx bicycles now you had to belong to either the aba or the nbl to race on there sanctioned tracks but if you belonged to one or both of the sanctions you can race on ANY track in the world that is sanctioned by either one of them and yep they also provided you insurance if you were injured . so you can see i've delt with organized sanctioned events and such in my life i have some grasp on how things are supposed to work so why not the ama ? or is my question out of line .