Sam raised a damn good question. How can Hobie support a National F-18 event? Can't mention it on the HCA or IHCA website, or show it in any division book, or allow the "H" to show up on any third-party flyers. They can give money to the event (and won't it be neat to see the factory DIRECTLY FUNDING an open event) and personnaly help out, but according to the WORD, that's about it. Of course, they can do whatever they want; who can sanction the sanctioneers?

Now, the more rational would say that's a detail that can be worked out. Well, wouldn't it have made sense to hold off on this thing for a while, ease into it with a less aggressive phase out, and work out the details BEFORE you piss the hell out of everybody with a sweeping all-at-once nasty-gram? Thank you, I feel better now.