[NSRCA-discussion] Fwd: Electric Weight Proposal Logic and Rationale

[Bob Richards]

Yeah, broken record. :-)
   
  I think we are stuck with whatever the FAI rules are. For aircraft records (like distance, duration, etc) the FAI requires it to be takeoff weight. I don't understand why it is not done for competition planes. What is the reason behind the weight limit, specifically? Is it to keep the mass below a certain level so as to limit the kinetic energy of the plane? 
   
  Bob R.
  

Richard Strickland <richard.s at allied-callaway.com> wrote:
      I know I sound like a broken record, but: The IC airplanes are weighed without fuel--the electrics should be weighed with out their fuel.  Give or take a little for the tank and not splitting hairs--but it simply is not fair the way it is set up now.  I'd still like to know how that decision was made--so they could just un-make it...seemed pretty arbitrary to me...no rule change involved--it appears someone just said this is so.  Somebody straighten me out, please.
   
  Richard Strickland
   
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