Cost is relative. If a guy only makes $10K a year and crashes his $600 airplane he has lost just as much as a guy that has spent $6000 on a jet and makes $100K a year. And I know a most people who fly R/C airplanes make more than 10K a year, but the point remains the same cost and time are a relative factor. Just because you have $6k in an airplane and I have $1500 doesn't mean that you had to make a bigger sacrifice to get what you have, several times its most likely the other way around. And for this reason several people are calling jet flyers with these ideas "elitist" .

If you want a turbine powered only event go ahead. The south tried "separate but equal" and it did not work. Maybe in today’s society there is still a place for it, seems like a lot of those old ideas are creeping back up into mainstream with much acceptance. Funny how all other sectors have opened up to allow turbines, and now turbines are trying to discriminate against it’s own modeling roots. Its OK to fly a turbine at a warbird meet if its a scale jet that was used in the military. And I know of a few "scale" meets that have invited sport jets to fly the half time show. I hear in this thread all of the time how the AMA is "picking" on turbines, now, the turbines what to pick on their own heritage. SAD SAD[&o]