So if I was able to buy a Ferrari Enzo or a Saleen S-7, I would be wasting my money cuz I'm restricted to the current speed limit? Speed is not everything, grasshoppa! In reality just like you'll find guys with the fast cars bragging about how fast their car can go, in my experience most of them chicken out past sustained speeds in excess of 130mph or so. I believe the same applies to the average RC turbine pilot where most start to get behind the curve around 160-190ish (my observations).

IMO, most of the complaints or whining I hear about the AMA and such things as not being able to fly over 200 mph come from guys that have little or no turbine time. As someone stated earlier, it's not an environment you want to spend much time in and after a few high speed passes maybe approaching or exceeding 200mph it gets pretty boring. So, whoopee what next? Why don't we work on overall flight technique such as precision approaches and landings, aerobatics and symmetry, fly close to stall speed, etc., to help overall smoothness and achieve realistic flight.....we should always be striving to set goals and be a "good stick". For example, you can go to just about any jet rally and see guys constantly blowing their approaches and landings. Like the "3D" heli pilot that can do any trick in the book but can't really hover, most of us should focus on the basic building blocks of flying before we try to bore 200+mph holes in the sky.

I believe the new AMA rules are just fine and no big deal. Just fly and burn lots of fuel. You can discover plenty of other challenges besides just going fast, or you can set goals for each flight which should keep you and the spectators entertained for a long time.