IMAC has never taken serioulsy any fidelity to scale requirement, the rule has been applied as more of a spirit than letter - if it looks scale it is, if it doesn't, it isn't. Pilots don't have documentation, and CDs are not trained on how to evaluate scale. If someone is turned away, it is becaues the CD, or someone in the background, feels threatened that an unsuitable airplane marks the decline of IMAC. IMAC is not about to be overrun by pattern planes, but I fail to see anything gained by turning away a would be competitor.

pk