Im on the side that say, as long as the model is checked and appoved by someone who know what he/shes doing, it's anounced and everyone is cool with it and aware of it. Go for it. It sounds like in this case it is what it is meant to be,a college challenge lab, not an AMA event.

I've been to a couple of these events. I think I even got a prospect of flying for a cal poly team, I hope so.The kids building the models really have no clue what aeromodeling is or rules and the saftey involved but everyone of these events has avid modelers as inspectors and designated flyers, yes there are allot of crashes but I've yet to see any even remotely close calls. The few that could have been the pilot recognised it and ditched the plane. This sound like a wannabe laywer just wanting to rain in on the parade.

The only thing I would like to see is maybe a ban on PCM recievers if your going to maiden a plane at an event like this, that pcm lockout thing can be very dangerouse. At least if you get marginal control on a PPM stystem you can bump it away from the crowd. I say this becuase these events most of the time are not at designated flying feilds where the known frequecy problems would be identified. The two close call mishaps at any event I've been was becuase of PCM lockout on a low time model.