kymedic121 said:Yes sir, I joined before buying the PV2+. It is an awesome group but from what I see the AMA is pretty much siding with FAA and not willing to fight them, this as per what some of the other members are saying.
I'm not sure where you formed this opinion but I can tell you that you are entirely incorrect in your assessment. I happen to know several of the key AMA people involved in this and I can absolutely tell you they are not "siding" with the FAA. But neither are they trying to provoke them in order to make a smaller point.
Can you explain what would be an acceptable "fight" for the AMA to have mounted. So far they have issued a statement that in no uncertain terms lays out how they are categorically opposed to the FAA interpretation, they have tried to mobilize members to send in comments, and they have enlisted the help of the EAA to also issue a statement in support of model aviation. They also just went to DC and sat across the table from the FAA folks who are trying to pull this.
You want to talk about "rolling over" can you explain why with all the people who belong to the AMA, who belong to this site and who belong to various other hobby oriented sites only 3,000 some odd have been bothered enough to write a response to the FAA.
But I'll circle back here and say that the person who is the topic of this thread was one who helped to push the FAA over the edge. Not saying it was him alone, but the daily posting of stupidity that we all responded with "Cool" was actually feeding the FAA with all the evidence they needed to support them stepping into our world and messing it up big time.