<div>Jay,</div> <div> </div> <div>That is so true. So many clubs have noise rules that are useless, like "muffler required". Those clubs that have a "xx dB noise limit" may not even have a dB meter.</div> <div> </div> <div>And, unfortunately, there are muffler manufactures that have a huge part of the market because of club rules such as this. As long as you have anything strapped onto your engine, you pass the club rule.</div> <div> </div> <div>I belonged to a club years ago that had a dB limit (rather high, actually) but no enforcement whatsoever. I had a dB meter with me, and I decided to measure the noise from a ducted fan that was starting up in the pits. I simply took a reading, then walked back to my planes. I never said anything to anybody about the reading. Well, you would have thought the crap had hit the fan (no pun intended). The officers of the club invited me to a private meeting and wanted to discuss "the noise situation at the field". They felt
that my having a noise meter at the field was subversive!</div> <div> </div> <div>Funny thing was, they never asked me whether the ducted fan met the rules. It did!!! But, they did not care.</div> <div> </div> <div>It is this mentality that is the hardest thing to overcome when talking about noise and our models. Making the planes quiet is much easier. Convincing modelers that it is a good idea is by far the most difficult aspect.</div> <div> </div> <div>It always seems that the people that make the most noise with their models are never the ones that are around when it is time to search for and develop a new flying site. (Just my observation).</div> <div> </div> <div>Bob R.</div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Jay Marshall <lightfoot@sc.rr.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Of course the local clubs are partly to blame in that they don't establish<BR>and ENFORCE
noise rules.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>