President's Perspective: AMA and its average member.

President s PERSPECTIVE 5\F7fN AMA its average member few weeks ago spent evening solving problems world couple other members Executive Council very often happens discussion drifted toward what AMA does could should its average members Its natural discussion occur officers get asked question regular basis As evening wore talked about flying sites magazine flying sites insurance frequencies flying sites competition rules instruction programs flying sites awards programs club recognition safety programs etc etc subject bounced around question group would benefit very often group would hurt As subjects would come up would drift ideas would benefit group members another After following trail off oblivion someone would invariably bring up need average member discussion would restart different direction last 18 years have taken part same discussion literally hundreds times result direction almost always same identify something might benefit some realize will benefit handful Eventually someone points out midnight give up night thinking about latest bull session other day thought occurred have doing darndest try things average AMA member such member doesnt exist An average AMA member Hmmmnnnn know lot demographic surveying come up average member member would some certain age have some improbable number children like 239 would have some xxxx years education would make $xxxxx would spend $yyyyy hobby year would average AMA member would Yes would statistical average information would significant us trying average member An average member method doesnt describe what does Lets see try average 10 RC Pattern fliers 2 Wakefield fliers 3 Giant Scalers 4 CL Combat fliers 101 RC Sunday fliers widely varying levels expertise What get does change average throw guy flies nothing autogiros couple ornithopter buffs Guess what no such thing average AMA member simply changing word average typical doesnt make much difference no such thing typical AMA member either AMAs members cannot referred average typical sense words believe vast majority AMA members way above standards greatest assets sport hobby prefer has diversity its participants members organization dedicated sport/hobby share share interest others similar yet dissimilar interest secret us celebrate diversity work together improve image aeromodeling general simply look everything narrow perspective benefits us individually will surely fail survive group Now could find out what average AMA member would have us Till next Month Dave Brown AMA President November 1997 7