From the survey, 16% would not attend, 9% are on the fence about attending, 12% finds it a challenge to attend, 4% would fly anyway and just take the beating with zeroing every round. So I took those groups and determined an approximate increase in Nats attendance could possibly be 40%. I think it would be higher. I tried purchasing the lower weight zippy 20c from Hobby King US Warehouse to save some doe on shipping and all they had was 25c, heavier. The international warehouse still has the 20c, lighter, but you get hit with a rather large shipping penalty. It seems their is a manufacturing trend towards higher c batteries (heavier). I could be wrong on that, but that's where it seems to be going and we are such a low profit margin group for them, I doubt we as a group would have much influence either way to have them manufacture special breed batteries that we crave, and the weight rule demands. We pay extra for the lighter ones and is the larger part of the argument here, cost. Flying Jets, using turbines, noisy IMAC type planes, having a weight rules makes us unique, and a conspiracy movement to remove all rules, and or persons having ulterior motives are all presumptive evidence or conjecture, IMHO. You can always put the weight rule back in place, right?

Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in...