Hossfly I have to say that insulting the OPs intelligence and your smug attitude towards the subject at hand is one of the things that I hate about clubs.....................Insulting the way he types??????come on!.  There are many things in this thread that the OP may not have known.   I've been flying for 6 years and it was just recently that I found out what the AMA does with my $60 a year.  Is this really the way the OP is going to be treated as an uneducated new guy????  If it is then I want nothing to do with a club who has this type of attitude.  I fly because it's fun.  Not so I can be dictated by insulting, smug, club officers.  And no I'm not saying every club officer/ trustee member acts this way........or do they?</p>