[NSRCA-discussion] Rules Proposals

[John Gayer]

Arch,
I certainly was not objecting to you enforcing the weight rule at the 
Nats. I'm with  you 100% on that and any other rule enforcement at the 
Nats you can afford to do. You have to admit that your decision to weigh 
every plane created a lot of "discussion" on this list.
Can't see anyone going to the Nats knowing they are going to get just a 
tearsheet and a bunch of zeros for their efforts. Again, this is not to 
imply you should be doing anything different, just that we should change 
the rule to encourage participation in the future.
John

On 3/16/2012 7:55 PM, Archie Stafford wrote:
> Hey, all I did was decide to enforce an existing rule. Actually, I 
> didn't have to say a thing except for how it was going to be enforced. 
> Frankly, if I had the number of people available to strictly enforce 
> every rule, I would.   If nothing else my decision has at least 
> sparked the debate about the rule. It has never made sense to me to 
> never enforce it. Personally I think it needs to be left alone, but 
> others don't. Even this year, no one is saying you can't fly a heavy 
> airplane. You just wont get to keep the scores for that round. I 
> seriously doubt someone with a real shot at winning would show up with 
> a heavy airplane anyway. People can even have their tear sheets for 
> the round. It just wont be listed in the results.
>
> Arch
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 16, 2012, at 9:48 PM, John Gayer <jgghome at comcast.net 
> <mailto:jgghome at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>> 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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