For the record, I have no problem with requiring pilots and panels. What I do have a problem with is not properly defining what exactly "realistic" means and associating a score with it. NO score should ever be effected by anything EXCEPT what happens in the air. Period.

So IF we MUST have pilots to be "scale" then define what is acceptable and REQUIRE them for entry to a contest. No pilot, no fly. But STOP using it to effect scores.