To answer yeager:
I'd only be flying in the weekend as I need to fly in my afternoons to coincide with big enough arena numbers during the US evening.
So even if I was to manage to log 15 hours in a month, that's $2/hr, and I can do that with Warbirds which also has the added bonus of flying at a time when Mrs Glars is watching TV or asleep

But if AH offered $1/hr then I could hop in the arena for an hour and HTC would receive a dollar.
I know AH has picked up Warbirds pilots who were logging long hours because naturally $29.95 is a good deal to them when they're flying several hours a night but I just wonder if HTC is ignoring the people at the other end of the scale - those who can't fly as often and so don't signup because $29.95 is too much for the hours they'd spend in the arena.
Hope that makes more sense.
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