We all face declining numbers at contests. OK, someone will write how their area is booming.. but let's be honest, it's declining - and has been for years. For the most part, we have the same faces and the same winners at every contest. Planes continue to get more expensive - if you want to pay for them. Electric is expensive to enter. Suggested solutions seem to range from flying less expensive equipment to free entrance fees to Sportsman flyers. This is not the main problem, it's the interest in pattern that is declining. It's been suggested many times that perhaps it's the competition that people are worried about but IMAC seems to be growing. Why? More fun? Their planes are expensive.. their radio's are the same as ours. One thing for sure, we don't know what to do, and you are correct, it is going away. Is the handwriting on the wall?

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