Gary Hodson was a member of a volunteer team effort to standardize the A-6 rules. They appear to have succeeded. Maybe a similar volunteer team will address USIC No-Cal rules.
Several of you have flown No-Cal extensively. Perhaps a lighter minimum airframe weight is desirable -- maybe 3 to 4 grams.
Possibly the goals of any change in minimum required airframe weight should be:
(1) Encourage more people to fly the event.
(2) Encourage building and flying more different designs.
(3) Maintain the concept that expert skills are not required to participate in this event.
(4) Keep compatibility as much as possible with FAC Rules. Maybe minimum weight would be the only deviation from FAC rules.
(5) Maintain tissue covering.
(6) Leveling the playing field or preventing dominance by expert flyers is NOT a goal. The experts will win most of the time and that is the most prevalent definition of expert modeler.
Currently Hosler Furies dominate at the USIC. Furies are ugly on the table and beautiful in flight. (What would I know about beautiful? I flew a White Monoplane Canard Pusher for years. Not competitive, but interesting.) More different designs might increase both modeler and spectator interest. Most of you have noticed that Rev. Tim Lavender's Smyrna, TN church FAC group bring more different No-Cal designs to the USIC than all the rest of us will bring over a five year period.
Fred Rash
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