BTW I wasnt trashing IMAC fliers as was hinted at as i was able to goto the JR challenge a couple times and really enjoyed watching them. My point is although there is a small portion of that sig that is responsible there is a majority of weekend fliers that aren't. Thus the IMAC guys are calculated in just as the giant warbirds and jet guys are. there are a lot of us that take every saftey precaution possible. checking planes at field before we fly, going over our planes at home and making sure everythings tight and our batteries are good etc etc. the problem is you get a bunch of other members of our Sigs that dont care thus that reflects on all of us. So Erich you can feel you are unjustly picked on well so do the rest of us. remember the old saying, it takes just 1 idiot to ruin it for us all. thats what happens with the Imac guys you get several idiots at events andtheir home fields like to hover and try all kinds of aerobatics they dont know what they are doing (seen tons of crashes because of stuff like that) and it gives you all a bad name. it is one thing to fly a sequence and pattern it is another to just fly like an idiot all over the place especially with other planes flying a reg pattern.

So dont take it as a personal attack on those that fly responibly its just a fact that you are caught up in the same thing all us other responsible flyers are. The few morons ruin it for all of us.
Joe