ORIGINAL: DavidR
So why do the jet jocks have trouble playing in the same sandbox as the rest of us?
We are TRYING to play in the same sandbox but we are too big a primadonnas, and trying too hard to be egotistical @$$e$ to be able to get along! Geez gets all fed up just having a discussion imagine what he would be like if we were arguing.....he'd have a temper tantrum throw his toys and leave the sandbox.....wait a minute....I think that is what he is trying to do!
I don't understand why some people can't just disagree and go on with it. I don't necessarily agree with everything being said here but I respect everyones opinion.
I really don't have a big problem with the ego, if you are successful in your profession and have extra cash to flaunt you should be free to flaunt it. But some seem to think that everybody should stop flying their toys and watch the big boys with their toys. Nothing else will do, if you can't afford a Jet don't fly. That attitude is a turn off. I should have enough cash to buy a Jet when the kids are though college, yet I don't think I would go for anything that costs more than a couple thousand dollars. I would rather spend it on a cool car or maybe a full scale aircraft. That doesn't make me a second class modeler because I don't fly jets.
I have not voted on the poll as I am undecided. I think a speed limit may be a good idea, I just don't know if 200 MPH is a good speed. Maybe if near a metropolitan area I don't know. At the same time I think Dave Brown is correct that there should be a limit to the size, speed, and fuel carried by a model. I just don't know if the present jet models are at that point yet. On the other hand I think that those who want to fly them should be allowed to, just that they should either pay more in insurance, or start a separate organization (perhaps within the AMA) to handle it. A sub-chapter of the AMA may be a good idea, that way if Dave is right and a huge lawsuit cash's out the entire insurance policy the rest of the AMA would still be intact.