Good post, Dick. Well said. One thing, though.

I'd go easy on the "consumer" type RCers...thank god for them. The reason we HAVE cheap, good ARFs and radios and such is because THOSE GUYS make the market big enough to do that. Without the "dilletante" modeller, who gets in and out of the hobby within a year or two, and the dollars they bring in, things would be really different.

Back before the days of the good, cheap ARF, you HAD to have building skills to be in this hobby, and the market was much smaller.