Wow, This is a great post. I myself feel for this guy. I live 70 miles from the nearest AMA field, while some of those guys are great & some of them frown at outsiders I've had a hard time wanting to pay AMA $60 to tell me where to fly, how to fly & who I have to pay to fly. It has been very frustrating, & know even more as AMA has this park flyer insurance for guys that fly at parks with no guidance but the guys like myself who owns his own 40x400' strip at my house has to buy the full insurance becuase I run Nitro fuel planes, what gives. I have been flying for alot of years have 30+ planes in my hangar & have fun doing it all. I don't have a bunch of dictator's telling me how, when & how much it will cost me to fly. I do enjoy going to these other clubs to interact with these guys, but in my situation it doesn't pay for me to support AMA when there is no benefit in it for me. Oh I also don't require someone that wants to fly at my place to hold an AMA card but I do make sure they have liability insurance & make sure that there able to fly & if not I'll be more then happy to buddy box them & get them solo in a short time. It seems to me that AMA & some of the clubs out there take the fun out of flying & like the drama in keeping there members stirred up. Again this is not about every club but abour 80% of them. So if your ever in my neck of the woods your more then welcome to stop & fly. Later