No one is mentioning "the real problem". What passes for AMA and FAI pattern today is way too expensive for many of us to fly. Instead of models growing smaller as time progressed and electronics shrunk in size, the models went the other way. Folks wanted to go pro, you know. There simply aren't enough folks serious enough to spend the kind of money that is required to fly like a pro. It is time to put this charade to end and to reconfigure pattern into something that will generate interest and competition.


Ed Cregger