Rule 5.5 reads:

5.5 A realistic three-dimensional human pilot and viewable instrument panel shall be appropriately installed in all Scale Aerobatic aircraft. (A one (1) percent flight score penalty will be assessed for non-compliance).

This means either/or by the way. You must have BOTH in order NOT to be penalized. And it's clear that Wiley Coyote ain't going to cut it.

Having said that, many contests ignore this rule and do not apply the penalty. It is a nonsense rule that has nothing to do with precision scale aerobatics as far as I can see. It is a holdover from the days when having a scale pilot involved adding weight to the plane and the rule was intended to account for that. We no longer have this problem.

You can argue that it makes the plane look more scale, and that's OK. Just tell me why you'll then allow a plane to fly without wheelpants. You hardly ever see a scale aerobatic plane without pants, Yaks and Sukhois aside. But in the end it has nothing to do with the precision of the flight or the performance of the plane.

Add to that how few "really" are scale and it makes it all the more silly. Absurdly enough I have seen a tiny Williams Pilot figure in a 35% plane and that plane was counted as complying with the rule. Go figure.

Check with the CD of contests that you plan to fly at to see what they intend to do about enforcing the rule.