Aresti: I'm glad you can accept being wrong. "Based on my opinion" and I've been flying IMAC since 1994 when the "big" airplane at the contest had a 72" wingspan and a YS120 AC was the stuff, I cant remember how many contests I've flown, or classes I've judged, but I've never CD'd (too busy flying).... If you want to move out of basic and be COMPETETIVE, you better have a big airplane. People of a similar skill level (ie. a class like basic sportsman, intermediate....), one has a 72" wingspan aircraft, one has 120" wingspan aircraft - the bigger airplane wins every time. Unless you've got the skills of a TOC class flyer, you aint moving out of Basic - you said that yourself. Next time you get a chance, go fly against the guy you consistently beat by one or two places, you fly a .90 glow airplane while he flies a 40% with a gas 150 on tuned canisters. See if "the better pilot will still win." Get my point? (thats what these folks are trying to get across) Nobody is trying to "restrict" anything, or "level the playing field". IMAC is all about unlimited aerobatics. The idea being presented here is to open IMAC up to more people who either dont like to, or cant afford, larger aircraft, but still enjoy the sport of scale aerobatics and want to be competetive.

Bob: The idea was presented to have all the aircraft fly in the basic 4 classes and be judged accordingly. Then at the end of the day, identify the smaller aircraft and tally thier scores separately. No "extra" classes required. The additional requirement would only be a little more time to compute the final score, and double the hardware given away at the end of the contest. I kinda like that idea.

Roger