[NSRCA-discussion] Rules Proposals

[Pete Cosky]

I really was going to try and stay out of this , butŠ..I am left with
questions and a few of my brain droppings.

So the 115 gram increase for Sportsman, Intermediate and Advanced was not
enough? Masters needs a weight increase? Ok, I'll bite, lets consider that
by the time you fly Masters you have clearly made a decision to compete and
meet the rules. Let us further consider that Masters and FAI pilots can, for
the most part, fly either. So if you allow heavier planes in Masters and the
Masters pilot wants to try FAI he is now not in compliance. Then again if we
want to make sure everyone that wants to compete at the NATS can then we
need to make sure that those pilots that are making the jump from Sportsman,
Intermediate or Advanced directly to FAI will not be unduly financially
burdened by having to by a new airframe to make weight.

We can also go so far as to say that nowhere in the rules does it say that
you must compete with a 2 meter airframe. That is a limit, you can use a
smaller airframe and make weight easily. The Wind 1.10, Osiris, or Monolog
1.10 would all fill that role. If a competitor chooses to fly a 2M bird then
you need to take the good with the bad, take the perceived better
presentation along with the power system cost and weight. Also, if you are
flying at the NATS, and lets just face facts that this is where these rules
are enforced, you have made a decision to compete at a National Level and
need to meet the rules. Oh, and let us not forget that you will also have
the resources to get to Muncie and stay a week.

There was a 1/4 pound allowance given for Sportsman-Advanced which is a lot
of balsa and/or epoxy. I'm no top competitor and never will be nor am I a
master builder but I meet the rules without that allowance on the plane I
built and will on my hand-me-down plane as well swinging an APC prop, and
all heat sinks intact. I do not have deep pockets but I chose to fly a 2M
plane so I did my homework and broke out the scale.

If it truely is cost that is the issue, don't buy the biggest and the best.
This is supposed to be about the best pilot not the best gear which is sadly
lost in the ambient room noise. Again a Wind 1.10 is legal and can fly
Masters.

Just my $2.98 ($0.02 adjusted for inflation)




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