Honestly.. I'd REALLY like to see FAI opened up to 6kg. NO OTHER CHANGE. Don't make the airplanes bigger, just allow 1 more kilogram to open up the gas engines to be usable. Actually.. 1 pound more would be enough really.

With every sport out there.. people look at the top of the line, highest dollar airplanes the 'top' pilots are flying and decide "it's too expensive" but in reality, you can put a VERY good, Nationals winning caliber airplane together for UNDER $1000 minus the radio.

It takes a great deal of personal confidence to not buy what Chip, Quique, Jason, Kirk, Sean and others fly JUST BECAUSE THEY FLY IT. There's no argument the airplanes they're flying are very good, but they're not the ONLY good airplanes out there.

-Doug Cronkhite