I wasn't going to say anything but I think this entire issue is really sad. [] . If there is some safety issue with slower flying planes then these issues should be handled. Someone should then impose rulings that require a certain speed to be maintained in the pattern and/or a special time frame for the slower flying planes. Maybe I'm weird or something but I thought all of us are here for our love of jets, and for years the standard for R/C jet aircraft was the ducted fan, to turn our backs on the ducted fan completely would be a shame. Thats why we have "Jet"events so that Jet lovers of all kinds can join together for fun and brotherhood, if someone wants to have separate turbine, ICDF, and EDF events so be it, this is the United States and no one can tell you other wise. But if the main reason is arrogance or the "elite" factor then I fell sorry for this branch of the hobby.

To me these separate events sounds a lot like the "Separate but equal" laws [:'(] that were in place in the south until the early 1960's .