Is there room for another Sport Flyers Asso. Reading The Ama rules on clubs or flight safty I feel I need to get a collage professor to understand them, what happened to keep it siple. Years ago I found that I didn't care for the old guy my way or the highway attude of the local AMA club and was happy to start a local sfa club almost all the people who were always flying joined in ever since sfa went belly up we have all been forsed to return to the old guy club and a few droped out intirerly the way the local bylaws are wrote I cant even get in right now as a vp to change things to make it more fun. I feel less rules are better since there are so many loopholes in insurance laws what good are all these rules the funtion of a club should be 1. get and maintain a flight site for everone.2 advertise through a phone dirctory or website. where it is,whats your club name.and who to contact 3. have fun flying. (help the new arf people) and promote aircraft in all its nuances. Signed Ray Rusaw AMA#442556 Juneau Alaska

Actually the prime directives you have given doesn't require AMA,SFA or even UMA. It seems to me finding a place to fly in Alaska shouls be easy.

If thes aint the main reasons for having a club what is?

You are exactly right and I couldn't agree more.

The rules for flying under AMA are about as basic as the lawyers allow. In this era of people suing for spilling coffee on themselves (the woman at McDonald's spilled it on herself... and its McDonald's fault? What kind of goofball stuff is that?) The AMA HAS to write stuff in a way to please a lawyer rather than in a way to make it understandable to the average person.

The basic rule is the same as it always has been... Don't purposefully do something that is inherantly STUPID. Just now... they have to more explicitely say... "This is stupid, don't do it."

They had to say... don't slap the tail on the ground doing the hovering. Why?.... the average Joe R/C Pilot can't handle it. He won't build the plane to handle the shock of hitting the ground hard with the rudder. He can't handle the controls like Chip Hyde and touch down light as a feather 100% of the time. There's all kinds of things that can break if you slap the tail on the ground too hard... and its a VERY bad time to lose the rudder or elevator. And... if the servo strips in just the wrong way, it can be frozen in place, trying to move, and can put a drain on the RX power pack that will melt the wiring harness. You have no control of the plane AT ALL if that happens.

Do we need more reasons to say its unsafe to do it? Do we need to see one of the planes go 100% out of control, pointed straight up full throttle (trying to recover from the bothched tail touch...) and not know who or what its going to hit?

Did I really need to explain that?