Every two years after the World's we have the same complaints mainly from AMA pilots.
The rest of the World flys FAI.....................get over it and live with it.
The rest of the World is NOT going to do what The US wants....................sounds familiar??
Right. Most of the people participating in the "international" F2B working group are willing to actually address various issues, people with your bigoted "Ugly American" stereotypes ignore most of it, reject it based on who proposed it instead of the merits, and prevent any progress from being made. That is *exactly* what seems to happen at Derek's mystery committee.
We know all that. But we are still plugging away, dumb fat lazy types as we are, because we are still stupid enough to figure that you might actually want to listen to someone who has 10x more experience. It's just as much *our* event as it is yours or anyone else's - not to mention *we invented it and perfected it*, at which point "the world" just copied the 1959 AMA rule book and slapped "FAI" on it and later claimed to be the experts on it. Also not to mention (and *just exactly like world affairs) it appears that AMA members pay lion's share of the dues for the FAI to exist at all.
But no, just accept the status quo, because the "leaders" figure it all out, what can we do, throw up our hands? We don't accept this, it is culturally repellent to settle for a lesser solution just because it seems too hard. Fortunately, not many of your fellow countrymen take this tack, nor do stunt fliers in general (no matter where they are).
By the way, have you ever considered the *reason* people such as yourself dismiss us all out of hand? Because there's a very good and fairly obvious answer to that question, and it has far more to do with you than it does with us.
This is all OT, start a thread entitled "People from the USA are whiners/stupid/pushy" and we will have a lively debate. But that's probably too hard, and you might not win, so don't even try.
Brett