Tom,

First off, thanks for your hard work on our behalf.

While it's too late to make any changes, for what it's worth, I too fly Unlimited and I can only think of one Unlimited competitor that I have spoken with over the last few seasons who believes the tailslide should be an IMAC manuever for all of the reasons Mark has stated here- including TOC and Masters competitors.

I've been wrong before, however, based on discussions I have had it's hard for me to imagine that a vote from a group of just Unlimited pilots - the group that is affected by the decision - would have produced a similar outcome.

I'll grin and bear it this year- but will continue to say that the tailslide does not have a place in IMAC- too much is out of the hands of the competitor and, what's more, when you flop a tailslide- it's a zero and has the most severe impact on your score.

Dave Michael