I've been saying the same thing for years, but it gets people round these parts in a tizzy.

I complain about the lack of scaleness in a Fw 190, and everyone comes out of the woodwork claiming that it doesn't need to be scale, its not the scalness that counts, and every other excuse that can be found.

The point is a very good number of American's are lazy. No ifs ands or buts about it.

I work a 50+ hour a week job, spend most of the weekend flying full scale aircraft for the Civil Air Patrol, yet somehow still have time to build and fly my RC models.

I've seen what the cheap ARF folks have done to the hobby as a whole. I remember several local hobby places with dozens and dozens of kits on the shelves, now full of ARFs that require so little skill to build its kinda silly. I watch as people fly these ARFs where ever they can, claiming they can fly where they want and don't need to be members of the AMA to do so, then proceede to crash the plane, and luckily no one has been hurt. God help us all when they DO hurt someone, because it won't be just them suffering the opinions of the local, state and possibly feds, it will be all of us who have been under a lot of pressure since 9-11 anyways.

This may be sounding a lot like another b1tch session, thats probably because it is, the crap coming out marketed as "scale" ARF's is simply silly. But hey, as I said, people keep buying up the crap.

I completely agree, they buy a slab sided P-51 with nothing that looks like a P-51 should then drop money on a three bladed prop and don't even realize that the P-51 had a 4 bladed prop (unless they are building an A-36 or P-51A).