ORIGINAL: Jim Branaum
ORIGINAL: gow589
That's a myth. There are becoming a lot more foamies. It makes the core look smaller but there will always be a certain number of people who want to build and fly regular r/c's. The biggest threat from the foamies is doing stuff to damage the view of the hobby. They are a lot more likely to do something crazy that will stop the rest of us.
You are right, but that is a risk we MUST face and try to find an answer to. That also is a good reason to at least try to get some of this group into our organization because that means we will have expended a little effort educating them. That contributes to the possibility that the worst thing will not happen or that there will be a corrective counter action we can take. However, I am NOT holding my breath.
If you read back there were a lot of good sugestions such as AMA starting Park Flier groups. They could do this with lower rates PROVIDING they do not get full acces to full AMA fields people pay full price for. There were some other good ides too.
I was at the flying field this weekend. The flight line always had some one on a small electric. It is making it difficult to fly because they keep the thing over the runway the entire time.