[NSRCA-discussion] Rules Proposals

[John Gayer]

This won't work very well, in my opinion. Who is going to the Nats if 
they start out 5-10% behind? This does nothing to increase attendance 
and is detrimental to operation of local contests. All it takes is an 
unhappy pilot feeling he was home-towned protesting vociferously about 
the heavy airplane that just beat him and demanding a weight check that 
might reverse the first and second places.

IF the CD denies the protest, you've lost a pilot. If you do a weight 
check and it fails, then you've lost a different pilot. To prevent this, 
a CD must waive the weight rules on his sanction which is not normally 
done now, although it should be. So extra work and/or hassle for the CD 
and extra work for scorekeeper/scorekeeping systems. For what gain? A 
rule that will not be enforced locally and will keep pilots away from 
the Nats just as much as no weight allowance at all.

At the very least, preface the rule proposal with something like:
This weight rule will be enforced at the Nats. If a CD  chooses to 
include this rule at a local contest, he must publicize that fact 
appropriately to all potential attendees at least 30 days prior to the 
contest.

At a local contest, this officially leaves us with no weight rule at all 
in AMA classes. That's probably OK as we could reject on size if needed. 
Personally I would only turn someone away if they brought a 42% Extra to 
fly in Masters and maybe not even then...

Cheers
John


On 3/15/2012 7:54 AM, ronlock at comcast.net wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Here is a copy of another proposal for consideration by the Contest 
> Board along with the others that have been submitted.
>
> This one does not disqualify a model for not meeting weight limits.  
> It imposes a score penalty, but still allows the
>
> model to participate.
>
> Ron Lockhart
>
>
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