Re: BOM rule - was:: Ready-made VP at World Champs

From: <iskandartaib_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 07 Mar 2018 02:03:31 +0000

I'm sure kits are allowed - attend any Nats and you'll find many kit-built models being flown in classes that require BOM. BOM doesn't mean the model has to be scratch-built, kits are usually allowed. What was the intent of BOM? It goes back to the early days of aeromodelling competition, in the 1930s IIRC. The intent was to prevent "daddy-built" models from being entered by kids. In one case I read about they actually asked three brothers to build a wing on the spot to prove that they could build a model. And they did! As far as F1D is concerned - it's an FAI event. Does BOM even apply? Forgive my ignorance, I don't fly F1D, and don't know the rules, but I do know that very expensive, fully built up Russian and Ukrainian models abound in Wakefield and A2 (i.e. F1B and F1A). You even see them being used in Indonesia (the models are bought and paid for by regional aeromodelling clubs for national level competition). Similarly, fully built up (usually Russian) models are used in F2B (CL Precision Aerobatics) but NOT allowed in AMA PA competition (at least, not at the Nats). The issue of whether to allow ARF models in CL Stunt in the US blew up into a full-scale war around 2001-2002.
 

 How any of this applies to F1D auto-pitch mechanisms I wouldn't hazard a guess... no stake in it myself...
 

 Iskandar

Received on Wed Mar 07 2018 - 03:11:09 CET