ryan:

if you take a critical look at IMAC in the early days, you might agree that "emulate" was used in the broadest of contexts. There was no Intermediate, no uniform source of figures (now the FAI catalog), no methodology for training judges, no guide for creation of unknowns, no consistency or uniform resource for K factors, sequences were hand drawn and often included figures did not reconcile with the judging material...on and on. So with or without a pilot panel rule, i think you will agree that the IMAC of today is much closer to "emulating" IAC then whatever was done - not stated - in the beginning. Bill's point, and one with which I completely agree - is that IMAC is models, and these models have long past lost their relationship to their supposed full size counterparts.

Paul