ORIGINAL: sweetpea01
Well put.
The rule should be more specific or gone. but not until next year though........
Its a tough one.........do you let a person with a .40 size pilot who puts it in a 40% get away with it? According to the rule it's ok....doesn't say the pilot has to be scale...only represent a human.
The rule should at least say the pilot must be within 10% scale of the size plane its in.
The next rules cycle will not allow for a rule change to go into effect until January 2009.
As far as what the pilot can get away with, that is up to the CD. The rule says "realistic". If that is a 1/12th scale jet pilot in a 40% plane to the CD, then it is OK.
As I said, it either needs to be defined or dumped. In the interim I urge CD's to ignore it. It is just too poorly defined to be of any use.