No worries...it actually was a kind of dark humor that I relate tokind of like the blimp picture in another thread I saw recently.

To echo 8178this plane could be completely built and outfitted for the same cost as a good trainer. This is not the norm in any other pattern discipline and provides a lot of potential SPA participation. This is not to say that one couldn't spend as much as one wanted to have a tricked out plane, but it isn't necessary. I think that the judges can put aside that consideration as well as who the person flying the plane is and score what they see in the air.

Good times.

Ryan