Maybe I just don't have a clue but it looks a lot like "Chicken little" and the "sky is falling". I recognize that the hobby is going through some major changes, advances. I recognize that the park fliers are becoming more popular. I don't see this taking away from the hoby, only intensifying it. I hated ARF trainers but it has brought modelers out of the woodwork. Without ARF's a large percentage of modelers would have never gotten into the hobby. While some leave and decide to fly in parks, others want to fly airplanes that require runways, ands some enjoy being around people, eating hot dogs and swapping stories. That will never change. Let the Park fliers be, it's a free country. Those that gain the desire will come. There are so many interesting aspects to the hobby that those with "Real Interest" will seek them. If we re-structure the AMA to gain them, we'll only irk off a lot of other people and loose the core.

The only way I would suport a seperate rate for park fliers is to have "Park fliers clubs" sponsered by AMA. Limit the size A/C to 2lbs, make it all electric, no indoor (Fire hazard from Litiums) and give them NO rights at normal full service AMA fields. Beyond that, if they want to fly airplanes that require a runway, let them join like everyone else. If they want to, the'll come.

Too often, we do things for idealism that screw the world and we wonder why everything falls apart. Far better not to do it and not to screw up what we have.