let me say this to you fireman350 congrats on getting a kid involved in the hobby and i hope that you were able to keep him involved even after his FIRST exposure to a negitive AMA'er and sorry that happened to you .
and as you've seen i'm not AMA but this is the exact thing that has happened to me and so many others and if the almighty AMA ever gets off there throne and read this it migh just show them why there membership is in a decline .

once again from someone thats in the hobby i am sorry you were delt with in such a way thats not good for anyone .

but hey if they think my electic plane is a toy then i don't really need the AMA after all ............cooooool !