If cost is the driving factor here, then how do you explain the migration to IMAC style planes? Most of the young kids who flew really well at the NATS this year in the lower classes, also fly IMAC and have airplanes that dwarf the cost of what we are flying today. I think the reason most kids migrate to the IMAC style flying is the freestyle and the unknowns. They love to fly the foamies and learn crazy maneuvers with them, and then learn them with the larger 40% stuff, and then get to do the freestyle's at IMAC events. At all of the IMAC events I saw last year, there were many younger pilots and most of them, regardless of the class they were flying flew freestyle, and some of them had amazing routines. Pattern is never going to be that "wow" event any longer. Planes and times have changed.

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