I forgot to answer the original question. It's definitely not the prizes or the trophies it simply to spend time with great people and to continue my quest to once and for all discover why I cannot fly what I can see in my head. If I can only compete with a stick plane. The year I soloed with my trainer my wife and I went to the Nats just to watch. We saw combat, control line aerobatics, control line speed, pylon racing and precision RC aerobatics. We pulled our lounge chairs on-site 4 to watch and a guy named Tom Wedon came up to us and said he didn't think this was a spectator sport. After watching for about a half-hour I knew this was for me. I knew there was something besides boring holes in the sky with a trainer plane. I would like to thank Tom for being a great ambassador to the sport and introducing me to my addiction. Jim