IMAC is a SIG of the AMA.

If 400' @100mph becomes the hard and fast standard it will kill any competition in this country and abroad. But hey, America isn't competitive at anything anymore other coming up with new and inane rules to regulate everything for our safety and security. The Japanese whom we dropped bombs on in WWII kcik our butts at everything, education, technology, education even baseball. What's one more thing that most Americans will never really miss? We just play with toy airplanes anyway. Isn't that right?

As far as competitive on the world stage in RC I think it is worth noting that this past summer the US Junior Team won the F3J (thermal soaring) World Championships. Brendon Beardsley is the current World F3J Champion and Daryl Perkins won the senior World Champion title. Daryl is well known in soaring circles having won the F3B soaring championships FOUR times.

The US has done fairly well over the years on the world stage at various FAI events.

PilotFighter
are you familiar with the Zero Ft Rule near airports?
Compare the now (ac91-57) with the could be (sUAS ARC):

Consider the chat needed with the airport when within 3miles:
Mr Airport, we are flying above 400' saturday and are notifying you as AC91-57 reccomends,
other than Saturday we will be below 400 so we never even call you
vs
Mr Aiport, may we please fly at all on saturday,:
We humbly beg for sUAS 3.3(4) permission to get off the ground with a model near your airport

Any past signatures aquired proving that the airport operator was notified of model operation within 3 miles would probably constitute permission of same unless the operator stated otherwise. Either way, it is only a pow wow and a signature. However, in light of the post above summarizing the jist of the meeting thus far, it appears the FAA has backed away from regulating MA directly. It is unlikely that this restriction will see the light of day. The AMA would need to voluntarily write such a rule. Or be coerced into writing such a rule by threat of regulation from the FAA. But the FAA has already admitted they intend to avoid the legal and finacial can of worms of regulating MA. So, why would the AMA write such a restriction? I believe the worse case that we will see come from the current confrontation is that the AMA might take out the comma and return the saftey code to the agreed form of 1981. It sounds as if the comma is the FAA's main point of contention. I just hope that our boys have the brass to stare them down.