[NSRCA-discussion] Rules Proposals

[John Gayer]

Point taken about having to serve notice that you are going to enforce a 
rule at a local contest. Note that Arch had to do that for the Nats this 
year and such a clatter did arise....


On 3/16/2012 6:53 PM, Dave Burton wrote:
>
> John, one issue about waive a rule notification in really bothers me 
> in your suggestion. Having to post in advance 30 days that a CD will 
> enforce a rule is counter to any other process I've seen.
>
> It becoming clear -eliminating the max weight rule is the only system 
> that really works. LOL
>
> *From:*nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org 
> [mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] *On Behalf Of *John 
> Gayer
> *Sent:* Friday, March 16, 2012 8:20 PM
> *To:* General pattern discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Rules Proposals
>
> 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 <mailto: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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