AMA License After Years Of Flying Retirement

[Dick Pacini]

I haven't flown for 45 years but still maintain my AMA License because I don't want it re-issued.

Such is the cost of pride.  Too bad the AMA can't freeze a number, perhaps for a one time fee.

Comments?

[Joe Ed Pederson]

I haven't flown for 45 years but still maintain my AMA License because I don't want it re-issued.

Such is the cost of pride.  Too bad the AMA can't freeze a number, perhaps for a one time fee.

Comments?

Dick,

I've been in and out of the AMA a couple of times and each time I came back I asked for my original number and they always let me have it back.

Have you asked to get your number back?

Joe Ed Pederson

[FLOYD CARTER]

On the other hand, AMA will change your number without even asking.  It happened to me.

[Ken Culbertson]

Dick,

I've been in and out of the AMA a couple of times and each time I came back I asked for my original number and they always let me have it back.

Have you asked to get your number back?

Joe Ed Pederson

I have and couldn't get it back.  I was a CD and they told me I had that number permanently.  I was out for a while and when I came back they said they reissued it. Ok, I understand they only have 10,000 CD numbers.  But the best was yet to come,  they had no record of me ever being a member.  So I gave them my old number before I was a CD and they said I could have it since it was never issued.
Huh?

Ken

[Dennis Leonhardi]

Not meaning to be a grump or downer, but I really don't have much use for the AMA except that it's a necessity for some purposes.

Like so many "trade associations" it has become over the years a group of bureaucrats largely intent on building their "kingdom".

I've been very involved in competition on the national and Olympic level and have little respect for a national "governing agency" that doesn't even take full responsibility for conducting "national championships".

I would prefer my dollars not be spent promoting trains, RC cars, or even drones.  And, in my experience, the level of personal service we experienced with HQ is long gone.

Just my penny's worth, and no disrespect for those who completely disagree.

Dennis  -  AMA 353  -  Former CD

[Dane Martin]

I have and couldn't get it back.  I was a CD and they told me I had that number permanently.  I was out for a while and when I came back they said they reissued it. Ok, I understand they only have 10,000 CD numbers.  But the best was yet to come,  they had no record of me ever being a member.  So I gave them my old number before I was a CD and they said I could have it since it was never issued.
Huh?

Ken

My parents weren't married before my sister and I were born.  So they got my last name was different on my first AMA number. They wouldn't let me keep my original number when I got my name legally changed to my dad's last name (technically step dad but you'd never hear me say that.) And they wouldn't let me keep my original number, as it was issued to someone else.
Dane,  ama 919356