ORIGINAL: smcharg
There are still alternatives out there if it's cost you're worried about. Vanquish, Mythos 125, (hopefully sooner than later) Osiris 2M.....kits. All of these are under $900 US. If you subscribe to the theory that what you fly doesn't matter (as it should be), these airplanes then should be competitive. The point still remains, as several have pointed out, what the ''big boys'' fly is what sells. If that weren't true, people would not have sponsors and sponsors would pick people randomly. They do not. They pick the people that are going to take their product and win.<div>
</div><div>The rule doesn't drive cost, competition does.</div>
Hi Scott,
Agree 100%.
So when examining the proposed rule changes, which is the discussion I'm participating in, we should leave out the claim that such changes cost more - it just isn't true.
We should examine the proposals from the point of view of the potential they have to add to or take from the sport.
Are they relevant in terms of ongoing development.
Are they fair.
Do they improve fairness.
Do they have any foreseeable anomalies.
Do they deal with any already existing anomalies.
Do they make running these comp's more difficult or perhaps make it a little easier to run these comp's.
Etc,,,
I for one would be happy with either of the proposed weight rule changes.
I think the idea of no weight limit is fine.
I can't see any threats to what we have in that idea - at all.
Brian