now someone mentioned something about imac planes flying over peoples houses. until i met someone who flew model airplanes i thought that a radio control plane was something that you bought and wal mart flew maybe once and crashed, most people dont have any clue about the capabilities of our aircraft so they get scared when they see one flying over their house and they get scared cause its the unknown to many of then and our beloved planes are therefore "dangerous". even thought we know they arent many of them think they are. others just think we dont have a purpose like you mentioned and therefore we make useless noise. i think that as a gneral rlue we just be careful and dont fly right over these peoples houses making tons of noise. i know its alot harder then it sounds. if they arent curtous to you though then that is a whole different story. also, some soccermom might see your field and say, well, my kid should be able to play soccer there instead of those lunatics flying those planes there and boom, ou lost your flying field, i wouldnt mind seeing the statisics though. by that i mean how many new flying fields we get a year compared to how many we lose a year.