I don't know about Pylon, but Pattern has specific noise limits and they do measure that at Pattern events.

As noted above, "noise issues" come up at some clubs. Ours has a noise limit established, even thouth we are not in any sort of n urban area. The neighbors, even though they are not very close by,l have complained about the full scale planes that come in - we fly at a New Jersey Forestry field where they bring in water tankers to help battle fires in the pine-barrens and the Wharton State Forest. And they attribute that noise with our models. We realie that all it would take is one politician to get on the side of the neighbors, we would be looking for a different place to fly.

As far as power differences, well, since I've never removed the baffle, I can't tell you if you would get any increase in power so I would have to let the RCU experts answer that question.

CGr.