LOL then they would not b e flying in a scale-like manner. Theres nothing wrong with hovering other than to me it is boring to goto an event and the only thing they seem to be able to do is to hover. The problem is the safety issue at an event where you have civvy planes, sport planes, aerobats and warbirds all flying and everyone seems to fly the pattern except a good portion of the aerobats that want to hang their planes over the runway and wont move to allow takeoffs and landings. besides myself I have seen others call for a landing and some idiot decides that the runway is theirs to hover over and wont move. I have seen people call for deadsticks and accidents just barely avoided but not always avoided. This is a major problem and seems to get worse each season when some kid that just got off a trainer has to have a 3D plane and then only seems to know how to hover it and decides to goto some event and show off. Not all the pilots are newbies like that but I see and hear more and more abt newbies at clubs doing that and it seems to be more of the younger kids not showing resposibility where some of the older more experienced ones show a little restraint even then not all of those restrain themselves either. Thus the EC needs to step in and regulate this 3D stuff. There are enough IMAC sanctioned events out there where they can do these types of maneuvers that at other events they can fly the plane normally like everyone else.

Joe

PS JR im waiting to hear your stand on this as you say we need to contact Dave well I did I wonder what his response will be? My guess is they wont want to touch it they will say it is all up to the CD. Now before ya get yer panties in a bunch <G> saying im just unecessarily hammering the EC without waiting for hearing from them, I am just stating what I think will happen so when it does I can say I told ya so. I feel they wont want to tick off a major culture in the AMA to keep from possiblity of getting voted out of their dictatorial office. And if I am wrong I will gladly praise them but dont hold yer breath.