[NSRCA-discussion] Inspection & Weighing

[John Pavlick]

Yup it will be more work to make this happen but hopefully we can come up with a good way to do it. Look on the bright side: all we have to be concerned about is weight and size. Imagine if we had to check the cam profile, bore and stroke, head cc's, rocker ratio, etc. ? LOL
 
John Pavlick

--- On Mon, 8/3/09, Jay Marshall <lightfoot at sc.rr.com> wrote:


From: Jay Marshall <lightfoot at sc.rr.com>
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Inspection & Weighing
To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
Date: Monday, August 3, 2009, 12:06 PM








 
I have some concern that the proposals put forward will really work. If the plane is inspected at check-in then there is too much opportunity to change things. In particular, batteries, which are a normally removable item, can be changed to decrease on increase the weight. Do we “sticker” the battery pack? This means the plane must be disassembled for inspection and that only that battery pack can be used. At present fuel tanks can also be under/over filled to adjust ballast for windy conditions.
 
If this is a serious problem, perhaps there are other solutions. 
 
Planes could be placed in an impound/inspection area immediately before a flight and fully fueled. The inspection could happen here and shouldn’t delay the flow of the contest.
 
Another possibility is to adopt a “standard” weight for a battery pack, then weigh electric planes empty. The “standard” could change as technology changes.
 
As John Pavlick will tell you, all major race winners undergo a teardown and inspection.
Jay Marshall 
 
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