Well Eric, you beat me to it! I will just ad a "ditto" to your remarks and leave this site today with an additional thought. The Europeans and the Brits are way ahead of us here in the US. To bad we can't bring ourselves to honestly debate our present position.
Joe
I also fly stunt, combat, speed, racing and scale.
As I see it, all categories have a lot of events available, not just carrier.
Old events get stale when the same person wins all the time.
Quite rightly others quit trying when they see that it's hopeless.
As new equipment comes on the market and old stuff goes away we need to make new events to recognize the reality of the present.
Prime examples of that were Profile & Class I, which were launched in the 60's to deal with the excessive power of 65's and utilize the Supertiger G21/40 and engines like the K&B Greenhead 35RC.
Today, 36's & 40's have gotten out of hand like the 65's of the late 1960's. It's time to bring 15's and 25's into the mainstream.
I guess Class II will still be in The Book as long as one person wants it.