I see your points fully, I was not inolved with the rules making other than the fact that I am also a JPO member and am an officer through managing the website. Unfortunatley as with everything else in life there have to be restrictions. I'm not as crazy about some of the changes as well. The major problem here is that we have a tyrant in office at AMA headquarters that is trying to railroad the executive council into not just doing away with a less restrictive and more manageable set of rules but he is actually attempting to INCREASE the restrictions on us by reducing the max thrust that we have now, and mandating that every airplane have a speedlimiter installed among other issues. You are exactly right when you say this is a hobby and it is for our relaxation but I guarantee that if Dave Brown gets his way turbine flying as you know it right now.

As far as keeping people in the dark goes, if you are a JPO member you have not been in the dark every issue of Contrails this year has had commentary about the new regulations, including requests for input. JPO is not the one keeping you in the dark on the new regulations Steven Ellzey was point blank told by the AMA NOT to post the regulations. There are several people at the AMA that have become very deeply involved and supportive of this committee that proposed the rules and JPO does not want to destroy the long term relationship. Dave Brown called this "meeting" as an emergency meeting based upon "risk management". When this proposal was brooguth before the executive council the AMA's attorneys were present as well as the AMA insurance people and ALL of them supported it and claimed that it would be defendable if it ever were a court room type situation. So why all of the sudden do we have to have risk management?

Lastly... I have known Steven Ellzey for several years now, he is a good friend and an active jet modeller. He is taking a lot of heat for this and is taking this personally. Anyone that knows Steven knows he is a very methodical and analytical individual he does not act on a whim and certainly puts a whole lot of thought into every one of his actions, especially the ones affecting others. I for one appreciate the fact that he has been working so hard for the jet community. I fully support him as do many other people.