I completely disagree with how you plan on implementing the weight rules. The current rules specifically outline the process to use IF you are going to enforce the weight rules. Your process is not according to the rules. The rules say that planes must be weighed BEFORE a round, not during or after. And they say you will have two attempts on that day to pass. Everyone should be able to officially process their models, get them officially approved, and then only have to sweat out a possible random check rather then being put on the spot every flight.

Let me tell you a story. In 1999 I was preparing for the Team Trials with a Gator Giles 202. Before I left I weighed it on a NASA calibrated scale and it was 30 grams under the weight limit. I went to Florida for the contest and during processing on their scale it weighed 40 grams over the weight limit. I was sick with a gall bladder attack so it was up to my friend Greg Frohreich to rip out of the model what he could to get it within the limit. If anybody thinks that every electronic scale will weigh the same all the time, they're kidding themselves.

I believe as ED your choice is to either enforce the weight limit as outlined in the rules or to not enforce it. I suppose you can cover this by claiming it is your right as the ED. So be it. I also suppose it will now be everyone's decision whether to enter the Nats or not based on your decisions. I guess at least those that argue that the weight limit is only the problem of the few at the Nats who make the finals will now lose that argument!

Closing point. What do you think will promote getting the most contestants at the Nats? Just weighing the Finalists or weighing everyone every day of the Nats?