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Old 09-08-2010 | 12:36 PM
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Default RE: Why the AMA is not growing...........

At one time our little club in the Ozarks had a whole 10-11 members. We tried our best with ads an other things to grow the club. Nobody showed other than a coupla gawkers on the learning days. After a couple years we finally give up trying to get people, an between dying an losing interest, we are down to 5 of us now with a really nice field with nobody to fly on it.

We dropped the ama charter because the owner said he had plenty of insurance for it/us anyway. So for a treat we gave all 5 of us a free$25 membership this year.

Heres a pic of half our field, the chopper quit before we got any other pics that day. This was on a day when we held a Profile brotherhood fly in. Since then I have took up other hobbies (pellet gun target shooting, restore old Wheel Horse tractors) to kill time. Its not much fun flying by yourself. I am 60 an the youngest one out of our group right now....But I still do use the field for my target shooting if nobody is flying that day....haha.....fat chance of that.



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