Indeed Chad, indeed. As my brother said, there will always be someone will just go that step too far. He instanced a DA 150 in a plane that is not 2m squared but 2m cubed!

My personal opinion is raise it to 6kg. Would make it easier for fatter lekkies to make weight limit, would allow the use of Ni-Cd/Ni-Mh packs instead of Li-pos as someone pointed out and it would also allow petrols to make the weight limit much more easily. In the UK we have also had peoples scores not counting as they were a smidge over 5kg. I know rules are rules and all that but I think it is ashame that these pilots make all the effort to go to an event, practice etc etc just to have their scores discounted as they were an ounce over the limit or so. 6kg limit seems like the sensible option to me.

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