ORIGINAL: Gordon Mc
ORIGINAL: pilott28
Actually, the rules proposal from the safety committee wasn't asking for the removal of the speed limit, only that speed limiters not be required for all aircraft. By a unanimous vote, including consideration of the data, the EC agreed.
Hi Keith,
I'm slightly confused ... did you really mean "safety committe" above, or "TRC" ? TRC would seem to fit more with the discussion at hand.
According to Gordon Dickens (see post #17 in
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_15...tm.htm#1511300), it would appear that the proposal put forward by the TRC (backed up by the data that the JPO collected) had no speed limit in the rules at all, and that it was the AMA (safety committee) that decided that regardless of any data you had collected, they intended to have a 200 mph speed limit no matter what.
Am I misunderstanding (the other) Gordon's post ?
Gordon
Either term works. The TRC worked on the rules proposal, although officially, it operated under the auspices of the AMA Safety Committee and the EC looked at it as a Safety Committee report and proposal. This is splitting hairs, though.
The safety committee was not pushing for the abolishment of the speed limit at the February EC meeting. The proposal specified a 200 mph speed limit controlled by the pilot, as opposed to the prior regulation that mandated a speed limiter set to 200 if the T/W ratio was greater than .9 to 1. This was the recommendation of the TRC supported by the JPO (see position paper on the JPO site).
I guess the point of my response was that I was impressed with the EC at the meeting. They listened, asked good questions (most of them) and eventually voted the facts. After reading all the posts here early this year, I was not expecting what I saw. I think it is good news, and that we, as a SIG, raised ourselves in their eyes through the preparation and effort that went into the various presentations. Steve really deserves the lions share of the credit.