<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Setting a max takeoff weight would be fine, BUT you'd have to be sure that the airplanes were weighed full of fuel and that could lead to new and innovative ways to cheat on weight. The way the rule is written now, contest administrators don't have to make sure the fuel tank is empty, because it's to the pilot's advantage to make sure it's empty.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ron Van Putte<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 21, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Jay Marshall wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Wouldn’t past posts be in the archives?</SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Why not just set a max takeoff weight – period?</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P><B><I><FONT size="4" color="navy" face="Brush Script MT"><SPAN style="font-size: 13.5pt;font-family:" brush="" script="" mt";color:navy;font-weight:bold;font-style:="" italic"="">Jay </SPAN></FONT></I></B><B><I><FONT size="4" color="navy" face="Brush Script MT"><SPAN style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:" brush="" script="" mt";="" color:navy;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"="">Marshall</SPAN></FONT></I></B><FONT color="navy"><SPAN style="color:navy"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt"> </SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NSRCA-discussion mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion">http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>