FAI Weight Limit

[Bill Glaze]

Ron:
On the face of it, your thinking  sounds pretty common-sense to me.  
Cherry-pick those things that are beneficial, and don't follow those 
that are detrimental.  Right now, I'm in a  kind of in a wait and see 
mode.  Bill Glaze

Ron Van Putte wrote:

> All this discussion about FAI raising the weight limit is 
> entertaining, but we (the U.S.A.) has very little to say about it.  
> The U.S.A. has one vote and one can safely say that whatever happens, 
> it will probably be what the Europeans want, because they have the 
> votes.  If we don't like the way an FAI vote went, we could wring our 
> hands over it, but all we'd get would be sore hands.
>
> Whether we follow suit in the case of any action by the FAI is another 
> matter.  A change in FAI rules would only affect a very small 
> percentage of Pattern pilots, those who have a realistic chance of 
> attending an F3A World Championships.
>
> In fact, we don't even have to follow FAI rules for F3A competitions 
> in this country.  We can just put in an AMA rule which says that a 
> particular FAI rule will not be followed in F3A competitions in the 
> U.S.A.
>
> Ron Van Putte
>
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