An Overwhelming Weight - A Heavy Message

[Chuck Hochhalter]

Bob, I agree with you here completely! FAI is the driving force in our hobby
and we are all pawns in this great game.  I will find a way to reduce the
weight of my plane and for all, I did know it was overweight when purchased
but the deal was sweet and I know that CD's do not enforce the weight rule
at contests.  I have flown an Aries and fell in love with it.

Bob, thanks for the plane.  Wayne.. you got time to build a set of wings???

Nat, I will be looking for you at the first contest with $50 to lose a lb!

Mark, Richard, Mike, Jim, Martin and all Dist. 6 Intermediate pilots good
luck this year and Mark, if you aren't going to NATS... MOVE UP!!!

Cheers!

Chuck Hochhalter

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On
Behalf Of Bob Pastorello
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 3:57 PM
To: NSRCA
Subject: An Overwhelming Weight - A Heavy Message

Over the past several days, I have exchanged messages with many of you on 
this burdening issue of mass....I have read every note, every thread, every 
pun (and fat joke), and I for one, have come to Resolution of the Issue.

It is a Matter of Mass.  And Momentum.

The leaders of the game - the "big dogs" - "the Professionals" - the 
"Serious Competitor" *are* (for good or ill) THE folks that drive the game. 
Whether we like that, or not, (I have come to learn), is a very personal 
perspective of absolutely NO value on this issue.

Until the 99%, or the 88%, or the 77% make the decisions about what 
equipment is used in the game, we are undeniably at the mercy of 
"advancement".  "Change".  "Improvement". "Pushing the envelope". 
"Innovation".  The label does not matter; the effect is the same.

IF we make changes to the rules that permit MORE of "anything" (weight, 
size, engines, or "maneuver specific design airframes") we are resigning 
ourselves to a fruitless chase of an unachievable status quo.  Unachievable 
because the target is always moving.

FAI moves the target **For Us**.  I am now convinced.  Whether we agree, 
want it to, or don't, it does not matter....what we do is driven by FAI, and

that's the way it will be.

We are incapable of separation, because too many of us believe that "it's 
all good".  And that means we are destined to resolutely tag along 
permitting the tail to wag the dog....The One Percenters Rule....and  I'm 
now resolved to it.

Therefore, I will not support changes of any kind to the current rules 
regarding size or weight.  To do so risks opening the floodgates of 
additional costs, complexity, time, and energy.

            And the game is tough enough as it is.

Thanks to all of you who have helped illuminate this issue so clearly for 
me.  Your erudite analysis has overpowered my logic and common sense.
    You all will hear no further from me on this issue.

Bob Pastorello
NSRCA 199  AMA 46373
rcaerobob at cox.net
www.rcaerobats.net 

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