I for one don't have a problem with the price at all. I don't get the magazine and am 16 so all it costs me is $1.00. Then I pay the $20 field fee and I am free to fly as much as I want. Its much better than paying $10 a week to race r/c cars like I used to.

Besides, wouldn't you rather have a great field to fly at that has regulated frequencies so your $1k planes don't get shot down? Or even just mowed grass?