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My membership with AOPA expires end of this month and I'm not renewing. The truth is, they no longer serve my interests or speak my language. But EAA does. Honestly, just who is AOPA's customer anyway? It's not me, I cannot afford anything they advertise in their magazines. $50,000-$100,000 flight schools $500,000 cirrus aircraft $30,000 efis/gps systems $10,000 watches $40,000 factory engines $10,000 engine monitors mulitmillion dollar business jets Just who are they advertising too? Certainly not to me and I’m a 22 year ATP rated former airline pilot. Just who is AOPA’s customer anyway? And to top it off, I receive the AOPA daily email. Two of the articles I really wanted to read were blocked because I’m not a member of the legal services plan. I understand times are tough and money is needed by an organization such as AOPA probably now more than ever. But if all you are going to be about is a voice in Washington and nothing more, be honest about it and just say so. Maybe they should change their name to AOPAC (Airplane Owners and Political Action Committee).

rdugger, aopa is careful to check the temperature of many issues with their online poles, but they don't routinely check their own temperature. They are not the only "service provider" as you say in town. I'm not faulting aopa for their business practices other than to say I wish they were more honest about their actual purpose, that being catering to a more elite crowd. I'm just choosing a new "service provider" that more closely matches my grass root views.