David,

I have absolutely no experience with the JetCat setup. My experience is with "speed limiters" of a somewhat larger scale! I would imagine that the JetCat equipment is of the highest quality and accuracy available based on the company's reputation. My point is that I don't have any idea and most of us won't know what the variance is yet, we may be held RESPONSIBLE (in principle) for the accuracy. I am against the requirement for a speed limiter of any sort, in principle. How many years have we been putting fuel tanks in model airplanes? Uh...a lot! Anyway, I still see or hear about flameouts due to "a fuel tank problem". Now EVERYONE is going to be expected to engineer, install and maintain a pitot/static system in order to stay within an insurance limitation...Ya right! Go out and do an outside whooferdill and pinch your static port line and see what happens then.

And now for a "what if" scenario: How long do you think it will take for one of these individuals that I read about here on RCU with "marginal" abilities to RELY on the speed limiter for aircraft control? They will just say when questioned about excessive speed, "Uh, I got the thing set at 195, what's YOUR problem?" Then, when they become accustomed to bending that left stick (mode 2) all the way forward and the pitot line kinks, lookout! By the way, this type of pitot/static anomalies have brought down FAA certified and maintained aircraft in the past.

And yes Matt, we do agree on the mandate issue.

Let's keep this thing FUN,

John