"A dollar here and a dollar there and pretty soon you are talking about $58 a year with no good tangible thing the member can point to as coming from that expense."

Jim, I should confess up front that I had an article on this years Joe Nall Flyin published in the magazine and am supposed to have one on the Scale Masters. So I am surely biased. No doubt.

But today while going to the doctor I took this month's MA and carefully looked through it. I thought it was packed with information that covered all aspects of the hobby and in addition I could see what was going on in all of the districts - depending on how good of a job the VPs are reporting. There was a construction article, review, articles on electrics, scale, indoor stuff, etc. I personally like that. I take a half dozen other RC specific magazines and 2 or 3 that are more general.

MA gives as much good reading and photography (especially when I do the article) as anything else (well there are a lot of good photos in the other mags also).

In today's economy the cost of the magazineto me or anyone is trivial. A dollar a week doesn't seem too much when I just shelled out $70 for a small light Lipoly pack or maybe a Coke out of a machine.

I think that the whole discussion is a matter of who is and who wants to call the shots - the magazine is just something to crab about as a lever on the way to determining who is top dawg.

I would have a lot more respect (I honestly think I would like all the the guys involved in all of the discussions, they fly models after all) concerning the guys in the discussions if, perhaps, even though they don't agree with anything or each other, they would work within the framework of the existing system to make the magazine better.

Ben