Well, your only voice apart from PFA, BGA, BMAA, GASCo, GAAC, RAeS, BBAC, BALPA, and a few smaller clubs (Flying Farmers Assoc, Civil Service Flying Club, etc...). It fulfills a function (primarily in the UK representing the flying schools), but I'm a member of several organisations other than AOPA that personally I think represent MY interests better. If I did other things for a hobby/living within aviation, I'd probably feel differently and might well be a member.
I do wonder however why AOPA manages to be more expensive to join than any of PFA, BMAA, BGA and BBAC all of whom have to run Engineering departments and two of whom run pilots and instructor licensing activities too.
G
[ 19 January 2002: Message edited by: Genghis the Engineer ]</p>