I've enjoyed reading your answers and I appreciate your thoughts on the matter. To answer the question as to why I ask such questions, well there comes a time when coughing up $58 bucks more towards anything stings a little. (Two in college with five more to go.) There's this little thing called the "Law of diminishing returns" that applies to almost everything (at least figuratively) and I'm in the process of pulling in the reigns a little. I do enjoy this hobby immensely and I have future hopes of moving out of the "sticks" and rejoining society so that alone had me asking if being self-taught would prevent me from flying at a field where AMA rules are cited. These aren't deep, philosophical questions with an underlying purpose to incite anger......I'm just asking. Thank you for your thoughts.
XS