After reading all the post I found last year I was competing against planes alot larger than mine in basic Mike Brown won overall for the year with a 37% plane. He's been flying for years but not competing. Getting to my point just to see what the competitions would be like I drove 300 mile to the TOC of Maryland from New Jersey.
I was there with no planes within 20 minutes of talking to some of the flyers on Friday I had three offers to let me fly there planes (THANKS ROD & CHRIS)one being a 35% Edge. in basic they had all sizes of planes from 60 size thru 33% caps. Now the thing thank brought me in was the fact that people had things happen and planes broke but when you see Eddie Meyer walk over to a Fourteen year old who broke his plane on a harrier landing and let him fly his $3000.00 plus plane this is a group of guys I would like to know. Also thanks to Mike Brown who let me fly his 33% cap at Black Dirt after only meeting me three times and seeing fly twice.
If you are interested in flying IMAC then get to a meet and bring your planes. Talk to the CD and the pilots around let them know your interested in flying and you will find new friends and a good time. And yes size does matter but there were no penalty's for size that I saw and when I fly next with ED ALT I'll speak to him about it.
Kevin Gabelmann