President’s Perspective - 2005/06

WOULD YOU DESCRIBE yourself as a
risk taker? I doubt if very many of us
would describe ourselves that way. When
I think of being a risk taker in today’s
context, I think of the X Games or
extreme sports such as street luge and
competitive skateboarding.
In that context of personal, physical
risk, we are not risk takers, but how many
of us have heard someone say we are
crazy for actually flying our models?
Have you ever heard someone say, “If I
put that much time or money into a model,
I’d be afraid to fly it” to you? If you have
flown for very long—even only two or
three weeks—I’ll bet you have heard
someone say it.

President’s Perspective - 2005/05

IN RECENT COLUMNS I have pointed
out the need to reach out to members of the
park flyer community and bring them into
the AMA fold. There seems to be an
undercurrent where AMA is thought of as a
separate entity from its members, and those
involved with park flyers are separate from
either of the aforementioned. This is difficult
for me to understand because AMA is its
members and it is those members who
determine what direction AMA takes.

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