GW... I understand your perspective... From my point of view, I envy you, as, our club can only muster up no more than 8 - 10 flyers at a time (this was our max over the summer). In a way it's nice to have all the space you want, but in another way, it sucks, because a club is supposed to be a club.

One other view is that us younger guys don't exactly have the time to build. ARF's are convenient. I've been building a 80 inch Wendell Hostetler Extra now for a year, and I'll be lucky to get it finished by this coming spring. I have kids and a wife, and a very demanding job. That's just how things are these days. I worry about trashing out one of my planes because I don't really have the time to set another one up, and I know there's pleanty of "me" out there these days.

Keep your chin up, and fly those gassers! Show those younger guys YOUR pride and joy, and better still, go to a meeting and bring it to the officers that 3D'ing is OK, but that it should be done in a designated area or specific time.

Good luck...