ORIGINAL: t_burley
ORIGINAL: OldScaleGuy
ARF's have a place in scale competition. It is called Fun Scale. It is a good category where the arf's can compete against one another. Fun Scale is typically divided between novice and expert which allows for the beginners to compete as well as the more experienced flyers. As the builders seem to be fading and the number of contestants in Expert, Designer and Team are reducing we need something to keep the interest in scale competition.
agreed, it also allows for a new member that wants to get into scale competition
a venue to start at without getting too costly. it allows them to grow into scale
and hopefully start building scale planes.
the Pro-Am at TG is somewhat this way. It gives new competitors a taste of competition
at this level. it also gives previous competitors (the Pro part) a chance to fly something
as well if they have a plane that doesnt fit the 3 year color scheme rule. or flying something
that wasnt built by them (thus negating the BOM rule)
If memory serves correctly TG does not allow arf's of any sort in ProAm. But that is just a TG rule. For what ever it may be worth TG is just one contest and for myself which I have competed in don't really care much about it. But that is another story altogether for some other post. Most other scale contests allow for arf's in the Fun Scale class as mentioned earlier.