ORIGINAL: KidEpoxy
From OP
The make-up of the AMA Marketing Committee is public kinowledge. It's chaired by Mark Smith, and includes two senior executives from Horizon and Hobby-Lobby. That's not "word on the street". It's not something he's done outside of AMA. It's a standing AMA committee. This is the group which formulated the PPP program and took it to the EC for THEIR approval
I just went to both the Horizon and Hobby-Lobby webstores
and guess how many 1/2A - A nitro engines they have for sale
(the size engine a <2lb <60mph park yard plane uses).
There may be a reason for this. Its called market demand.
I imagine in completely unrelated news
the
guys that dont sell small glow engines somehow decided to make the
discount small plane teir be electric only. I wonder what the PPP would look like if a 1/2A - A glow seller/distrib was invited.
Corruption? Probably not.
Conflict of interests? Not if there were no 1/2A-A flyers in AMA... but there are.
Protection of involved industry interests at the expense of some AMA'ers (1/2a A)? You bettcha
<Dont get up about 'noise', I fly for $29PPP at a loud glow club
discounting quiet planes at noisey fields dont make sense
and Vegas Aces were not told by the school No Glow>
Just try your 1/2A flying in any of the close in to residential areas where electrics (of any size) are being flown and see how long before you are shown the door and the field is shut down losing it for electrics as well. How do you know what the school told the Vegas Aces? Maybe they went to the school with a proposal for electric only knowing that quiet would sell.