Thank you for making my case for me.
The PIC is making that decision regardless if the FPV plane is 9lb or 11lb.
The horrible idea that limiting the serverity of crashes with weight restrictions
should be dropped in favor of limiting the frequency of crashes.... which they have done with requiring buddybox.

YOU say the PIC aint gonna wait for the plane to be in really bad shape before taking over.
Does that hold true for 11lb planes as well?
If the PIC takes over before there is a sever situation, why care if the plane that doesnt crash is 9lb or 11lb.


Can a PIC safely take over a 11lb plane?
Of course, its done all the time.
But now it seems we have to teach all the PICs out there to become worse at taking over if they guy they are buddying is wearing goggles. That is the gist of it. The PIC guys that can safely take over a 40% Yak now have to Inept Up a bunch to meet the new required unsafeness of taking over 11lb models of guys wearing goggles.

What is the difference between
a guy wearing goggles that just had the PIC take over the plane
and a spectator in the parkinglot with his eyes closed
..... why, its nothing!
Neither the spectator nor the goggleguy have any control of the plane once the PIC of the buddybox takes control back. The goggleguy can waggle the sticks all he wants and the spectator can send txts on his phone and neither will make the PIC any unsafer.

In the simplest example of how 550 weight/speed limits make no sense:
Is it safe for a guy under a buddybox to try to fly an 11lb plane with his eyes closed?
550 says YES as long the guy is not wearing FPV goggles. The PIC can safely take over other 11lb planes, but the PIC now has to lose the ability to take over 11lb planes depending if there is a FPV screen infront of the closed eyed guy.

Tree falls in the forrest:
11lb plane, loaded & transmitting FPV
Laptop at the pilot station displaying that FPV feed
Buddybox PIC alone at pilot station, slave TX sitting on grass next to laptop.
Is it unsafe and now verboten by 550 for the PIC to look LOS at that 11lb Telemetryplane and fly it as buddybox PIC when there is nobody watching the FPV feed and nobody holding the slave tx? If a FPV is on a screen and there is nobody there to watch it, is that unsafe?

A chimpanzee picks up the slave TX but doesnt look at the FPV screen,
thats safe because the PIC will take over if the chimp looks like he is getting in trouble (which I imagine will be a lot of the flight)

But if an experienced pilot picks up the slave TX and accidently looks at the FPV screen for a half sec,
Stop the pressed and shut down the club for violations!
The PIC that can safely keep an 11 lb plane in the air with a chimp at the slave controls
cannot safely do so with an experienced pilot on FPV slave control due to 550.

"The SAFETY PILOT decides how far the other person goes before they can't recover...VERY safe...NOT at all like getting stung by a bee or making a bad decision to fly through the sun"
Muncie disagrees, in 550.
He can do that with an 11lb plane piloted by a chimp, or a blindman, or an empty slave tx,
but he cant do it with an 11lb plane if the chimp or blindman is FPV.
That PIC safety pilot has to sometimes stupid up and become dynamicly inept depending on if the blindman is wearing FPV goggles or not.

In review:
Buddybox good.
Weight & speed limit bad.
When you stop the planes from crashing, the weight dont matter.
"The SAFETY PILOT decides how far the other person goes before they can't recover..." - why would that change if the slave tx involves FPV... but only those FPV over 10lb.