View From HQ - 2009/03
We receive too many telephone
calls or e-mails that start like
this: “The local city council has
just banned all model flying in the public
parks. What can we do?”
View From HQ - 2008/07
I have had many comments concerning
my column in May’s MA and my
confession about not being able to
control buying more aviation items when I
have so many still waiting to be completed.
View From HQ - 2009/02
President Dave Mathewson
mentioned in his December 2008
MA “President’s Perspective”
column AMA’s new endeavor. We are
attending statewide meetings of local
officials in an effort to educate and inform
those who have control over many
potential flying sites of the goals and
mission of the Academy of Model
Aeronautics
200 MODEL AVIATION - 2007/05
The 2007 AMA membership
survey has been completed and
the results are in! Past projects
of this kind have included a general
membership survey using the consulting
firm Axiom in the fall of 1999. A
detailed reader survey for Model
Aviation was performed in March 2004,
and in late 2006 the Academy
conducted a Web page survey.
View From HQ - 2008/01
The announcement of a new
membership category—the Park Pilot
Program (PPP)—is in this issue of
MA. Rumors have been circulating about the
PPP; the Academy has been developing this
program for more than two years.
As with all organizations and businesses,
change is ever-present in today’s world. The
development of inexpensive, lightweight park
flyers alone has exposed millions to the
experience of flight. If we did not respond to
this new interest in model aviation, the
Academy would be negligent. This larger
awareness of flight brings opportunities and
challenges.
