Organizational bylaws usually deal with such items as name, purpose, membership, dues, officers and their duties, executive committee, safety matters, meeting place and time, order of business, and how to amend the bylaws. If your club has an issue unique to your area, this issue should be addressed within the […]
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Drones, FPV, and Clubs
With all of the recent news concerning drones and multirotor aircraft, are you left with questions concerning how, or if, you should include these types of aircraft at your club field? The goal of this article is to help you better understand these issues. If you have been around RC […]
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The AMA’s History Project was created to tell the complete story of model aviation through a collection of histories of modelers, clubs, and companies. There are thousands of model aviation-related clubs in the US, but our program only has the histories of a few in our online collection! Please help […]
Continue readingClub charter renewals
The March 31 deadline for clubs to renew their annual charter status has come and gone and there are nearly 400 clubs that have not submitted their renewal documents for the 2017 charter year. Life becomes busy and sometimes things slip through the cracks. Perhaps that’s what happened to your club […]
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Through their charter status with AMA, clubs are provided up to $2,500,000 of liability insurance for injury or property damage claims. The coverage is not limited to an accident caused by flying models. A club can also be sued for nonflying accidents that might occur at its flying field, meeting […]
Continue reading2017 Club Charter Renewal
The renewal season has begun. All club charter renewals were mailed last month to the club officer designated as your club contact. If you are the contact officer and you did not yet receive the 2017 renewal package, please contact us via telephone at (765) 287-1256 or email us at […]
Continue readingTalking to the Media, 101
Sometimes the telephone rings and on the other end is a reporter. Maybe he or she is looking to write about your next fly-in or charitable event, or maybe looking to ask you questions about your club or a public policy issue. In some cases, you might see something in […]
Continue readingPreparing for Club Charter Renewal
Club charter renewal season will be here before you know it. Renewal packages will be mailed to officers designated as the club contact in mid-January. Are you unsure who your club previously designated as the contact officer? You can check your online club roster in the Members Only section, or […]
Continue readingNOTAM/TFR Notifications
AMA’s Safety and Member Benefits Director Ilona Maine recently sat down with Tyler Dobbs, from AMA Government Affairs, to talk about NOTAM/TFR notifications. You can watch the interview in the December 2016 issue of AMA Air. The segment starts at approximately the 5:50 mark. AMA directly notifies individual members of […]
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Club Disaster Assistance Program
As we all know, parts of the United States have experienced some severe weather of the last few months and many of our members and clubs have been impacted by storms, flooding, fires, etc. Natural disasters don’t bypass a flying site and can leave the field inaccessible and/or unusable. Following […]
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