Thanks, Bill and Mr. "Insane."

I'll let the others know about the forum's return. It might be wise, though, to not make any major changes for awhile, if at all possible. There at least two good, well used and respected control line forums out there that are a bit easier to use. Some of us have tried to stick with this site for over five or so years, through RCOnline to the current iteration. It seems that, every time major changes were made to the navigational aspects, a few more flyers would be lost. This can't be good for a web site that appears to try to be a paying proposition for its owners/administrators. I have absolutely no problem with for profit sites, (other than being required to pay a subscription charge to use them), but if every so often when I visit, all my previous statistics and user name and password are gone, I tend to feel a bit unappreciated, as do quite a few others.

When folks learned about the RCOnline Control Line Forum, it rapidly became the second most used site for Control Line flyers on the net that I knew of. It probably would have been the most used after the demise of the most visited site when the owner/webmaster of that site returned to his home country in Indonesia after finishing his graduate studies in Indiana. RCOnline and its successors would probably have kept growing up to the present time if one hadn't had to keep relearning the site's use and re-registering. The folks using and posting the site at that time included National and World Champion Stunt Flyers (One of those guys was the forum moderator for awhile until he became the Editor of Model Aviation!), Nationals Champion Combat, Speed, Racing, and Carrier flyers. The exchange of information was excellent and made the site well worth visiting at least once a day.

Unfortunately, more of the experts left for easier, more usable, more software-static sites each time "upgrades" were made to the software. Most have yet to return and that's a real shame.

I hope that the latest iteration of this site will continue to thrive and provide those who visit and post, as well as those who keep it operable, with whatever their needs and desires for the site are.

I also wish to state that the foregoing is by no means meant as a negative view of the situation, only a comment about the facts as they appeared to those of us who have tried to keep using the site.