[NSRCA-discussion] Rules Proposals

[Anthony Abdullah]

Pete, I hate to comment on your "brain droppings" but that is the best argument 
I have heard to date on the subject.

Well said
Anthony
D4




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From: Pete Cosky <pcosky at comcast.net>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Tue, March 13, 2012 2:03:47 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rules Proposals


I really was going to try and stay out of this , but…..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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