ORIGINAL: TonyF
Joe,
You posted this earlier,
Well first off, thanks to everyone who responded to the thread. I was asked for my opinion in an email and felt that I needed some more information before I really said anything. Personally I have never flown a 2M, weighed an airplane or even held 8 or 10S worth of batteries in my hand. I have no idea how easy or hard it is for electric or glow guys to fit everything in a 2M plane and make weight (or glow guys for that matter).
I suggest that maybe when you do get some more experience with the event that you will understand better the problem. I bought my PassPort that I flew in Masters at this years Nats from Chip Hyde. He flew it in the 2008 F3A Finals. Would I not expect that model to make weight at the 2009 Nats? I did but I was hit with the problem a few days before the Nats started. I suspect that many others have the same problem. If they indeed weigh all the models entered at the 2010 Nats I suspect that many more having the problem will be seen. Or maybe they won't go to the Nats?
I'm working on it. I just bought an airplane designed for electric power and am working on a 10S setup. I have been doing research on what equipment to get and understand what my plane with my selected components will weigh. It's really not very difficult to do. It's actually kind of fun taking everything into consideration and making decisions on what is more important (cheap batteries, light weight, redundant electronic power system).
I want to remind you that I'm in favor of of some lenience toward the lower classes, but prefer to sight examples other than negligence to support my case.