Not to worry STL, people will sence the negativity of the AMA and some of its old duffers and the membership will start to decline as the word of mouth goes around. The AMA will be reduced to a small handfull of members which will end up paying 3 or 4 times what they are paying now while another more excepting orgaization will start up and take hold. The new organization will most likely be comprised of mainly E flight people with a slightly tierd membership depending on model weight and type of model.

Since the EPA is now starting to look at the smaller engines now for ways to reduce any more emissions,smoke or possible polution then the large wet flyers are going to be in target for a suprise. So mark my words, if wet powered model creates any type of polution what so ever then it is going to be either outlawed or it is going to need some kind of power reconfiguration to make it more enviromentally friendly. So unless your wet powered models are 100% efficiant and produce 0 emissions and 0 polution then you guys are going to be doing the whimpering.


As comunities grow and expand then the larger flying fields for the wet powered guys will start to thin out also or become much smaller. Soon these fields will only beable to handle the sub 45 inch wing span models. This will leave the parkflyer groups in charge of the fields and no place for the big boys to go.

Face it guys, parkflyers and E power are not a fad and they are here to stay and will overtake in the long run. It is a group that has been growing by the thousands every year. By the AMAs estimate this group is 2 mill strong and I expect that number to reach 3 mill before too long.

Oh if a newbie parkflyer gets into the hobby only to get otu after a very short while then it was because he/she failed on their first attempts at flying or they had a bad experience from the locals. If they had been welcomed with open arms and not had their new model flamed becuase it was a V tailed 3 channel trainer and they were trained not to fail then it might have been different. Most people that are successful at this hobby and are welcomed with open arms will stay in the hobby for more then a year or two.