I'm mostly interested in scale or sport flying...for some reason 3D has never interested me. I like the analogy of the heli pilots...I know it's dang tough, but for me, it just gets kinda boring.

We don't have many 3D flyers at my club, but last year we had our "big plane" fly in and one 3D dude showed up. He was hovering in front of the pits while a couple guys had huge scale Corsairs in the air. He flipped on a smoke system, totally obscured the other pilots view of their aircraft and nearly caused a crash. I'm not saying that this guy is typical of all 3D pilots, because I've seen boneheads in all facets of our hobby.