Yep!, IF the retracts are down, or even using the pipe is perfecly legal in the novice class, just novice only.The rules state that ANY AMA legal plane can compete in the novice class. We have quiet a few folks begin with 2 meter and other 3-D type planes just to get into the SPA end of the sport. I know some have a little trouble with allowing 4 stroke 91's to fly SPA,but by 2006 I'll be totally electric, even with the SPA birds, just nice and clean. The power setup will be tested for pull by either Watt output or by a plain old fish scales as a crude method. The OS 91 output is very, very close to the outputs of my old Rossi's really humming at or around 16K, without all the DB's, eventhough sometimes I love to here those engines run, just not for a whole day long. But as I said eairler I love it all cause it's part of my beginning of pattern.
Jamie Strong
CSP-SPA