Hi Matt

I tend to agree that when we discuss park flyers, it should not be the cheap underpowered ones, but the higher performance ones.

In one of the threads on park flyers, a poster (from a more northern area of the country, IIRC) stated he flew at 5 indoor sites and that AMA was required at all 5. Is there any reason to believe that your observation, or his is more accurate? I will stick my neck out here and suggest to you that Tony Naccarato at T and A Hobby Lobby in Burbank probably knows more about the park flyer scene in So Calif than anyone else. He might be able to give you a more accurate assessment of your local observations.

Where Dave Mathewson is concerned, I would not presume for a second to put words in his mouth. Having said that, I think you read too much between the lines of what was reported in the EC Minutes. Give him a call. If you report back what he says, do him the courtesy of asking his permission.

The basic problem with perceptions is that they are not facts. If we are going to have the AMA run on perception instead of facts and data, then Dave Brown’s perceptions of turbines, large planes, Li polys, pylon, helicopters, and everything else have validity and appear plausible. He has access to more data points than any of us posting here do. At least in my opinion, that is nowhere near enough information to make determinations to run the AMA from.