<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Yup it will be more work to make this happen but hopefully we can come up with a good way to do it. Look on the bright side: all we have to be concerned about is weight and size. Imagine if we had to check the cam profile, bore and stroke, head cc's, rocker ratio, etc. ? LOL</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>John Pavlick<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 8/3/09, Jay Marshall <I><lightfoot@sc.rr.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Jay Marshall <lightfoot@sc.rr.com><BR>Subject: [<SPAN>NSRCA</SPAN>-discussion] Inspection & Weighing<BR>To: nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>Date: Monday, August 3, 2009, 12:06 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV id=yiv672098824>
<STYLE>
<!--
#yiv672098824
_filtered #yiv672098824 {font-family:"Brush Script MT";panose-1:3 6 8 2 4 4 6 7 3 4;}
#yiv672098824
#yiv672098824 p.MsoNormal, #yiv672098824 li.MsoNormal, #yiv672098824 div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";}
#yiv672098824 a:link, #yiv672098824 span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv672098824 a:visited, #yiv672098824 span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv672098824 p
{margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";}
#yiv672098824 span.EmailStyle17
{font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;}
_filtered #yiv672098824 {margin:.2in .25in 33.1pt .25in;}
#yiv672098824 div.Section1
{}
-->
</STYLE>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have some concern that the proposals put forward will really work. If the plane is inspected at check-in then there is too much opportunity to change things. In particular, batteries, which are a normally removable item, can be changed to decrease on increase the weight. Do we “sticker” the battery pack? This means the plane must be disassembled for inspection and that only that battery pack can be used. At present fuel tanks can also be under/over filled to adjust ballast for windy conditions.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If this is a serious problem, perhaps there are other solutions. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Planes could be placed in an impound/inspection area immediately before a flight and fully fueled. The inspection could happen here and shouldn’t delay the flow of the contest.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Another possibility is to adopt a “standard” weight for a battery pack, then weigh electric planes empty. The “standard” could change as technology changes.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As John Pavlick will tell you, all major race winners undergo a teardown and inspection.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><B><I><FONT face="Brush Script MT" size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: 'Brush Script MT'">Jay Marshall</SPAN></FONT></I></B> </DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>_______________________________________________<BR>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc805.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org" ymailto="mailto:NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org</A><BR><A href="http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion" target=_blank>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion</A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table>