Free AMA with a drone purchase

[Bill Mohrbacher]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=yuneec+typhoon&_dyncharset=UTF-8&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&keys=keys

[Bruce Hautamaki]

Wow! Is all I can say. I have a brother in law that works at Best Buy. Will see if he can get me a free ama for next year.

[Randy Powell]

Doesn't surprise me. It's the AMA's primary market these days.

[Robert Zambelli]

AND, only $1,199.99!!!

Sign me up - one for everyone on my Christmas list.

  Bob Z.

[Jim Roselle]

We should lobby the ama for free membership for spending money at locally owned hobby shops.

[Brett Buck]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?st=yuneec+typhoon&_dyncharset=UTF-8&id=pcat17071&type=page&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&keys=keys

  I am not sure why we think this is a good thing. All this will mean is MORE influence for drone idiots and even more of a tendency to lump model airplanes and these toys into the same category. We should be hoping to purge the drone people entirely.

    Brett

[peabody]

Brett....I fully understand what you are saying....BUT, to lump all "drone" fliers into the "idiot" category is a stretch....Troy ( the guy that races them in FPV) is far from an idiot.....

Troy also builds and flies some incredible scale models....pins in his back limit his mobility or he would join us flying CL

Have fun!

[Dave_Trible]

I think I'm voting 'coup' next cycle.  I'm sure even many of the RC guys understand this.  Better small than sold down the river or out of business.

Dave

[Brett Buck]

Brett....I fully understand what you are saying....BUT, to lump all "drone" fliers into the "idiot" category is a stretch....Troy ( the guy that races them in FPV) is far from an idiot.....

Troy also builds and flies some incredible scale models....pins in his back limit his mobility or he would join us flying CL

Have fun!

   I don't include all drone fliers, just the idiot drone fliers. The AMA should have nothing to do with them and refuse to be the "community-based policing organization" for drones.

Of course this poses a problem for them, since they have long embraced flying toys (ARFs, RTFs, etc) that happen to look kind of like airplanes.  Drones are really no different in concept, just a toy you buy at Wal-Mart and go crash on a weekend.

    Brett

[Dick Pacini]

The only good thing about it is that those drone pilots with an AMA membership will be covered by insurance when they injure someone or damage property.

[Dave_Trible]

Last I knew the AMA still self-insures.  A downed airliner would bankrupt it.

Dave

[Tony Drago]

 
I think the AMA has just opened up a can of worms with this type of transaction. This could very well and most likely will come back to bite them in their wallet big time.
 Best Buy should be careful giving/paying for AMA member ships on the notion the customers  will have insurance coverage. Till one finds out about all the red tape that they could not be covered as easily as they thought they would be..
 
 

[Mike Keville]

Inmates running the asylum? 

[wwwarbird]

 Just proves my initial thoughts and what I've said since the beginning about the AMA and drones. Our "Academy of MODEL(?) Aeronuatics" instantly sensed the $$$, jumped the bandwagon, and will continue to whore themselves out to the drone market and there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

 Reinforcing it all even more is what I read just last night on page 6 in the latest MA rag, from the AMA PRESIDENT Bob Brown no less...

 "I recently spent time with quite a few drone pilots. Their focus on electronics and computers is apparent, but these pilots are enjoyable company and represent the future of model aviation."

 For me those comments were the last straw, I'm done with the AMA and am not renewing for 2016.

 

[Tony Drago]

X2

[Brett Buck]

The only good thing about it is that those drone pilots with an AMA membership will be covered by insurance when they injure someone or damage property.

   *Your* insurance policy - the one you pay for with your dues and will go "poof" in the first minor incident.

    Brett

[David Russum]

This is probably what the recent dues increase paid for...

[Dick Pacini]

   *Your* insurance policy - the one you pay for with your dues and will go "poof" in the first minor incident.

    Brett

Please explain your thoughts.

[Brett Buck]

Please explain your thoughts.

    It would take one very small claim (by current legal standards) to use up all the coverage - then your AMA insurance is worthless because there is nothing behind it.

     Brett

[david beazley]

I think AMA's end game is to become an "official" government agency.