Hey Brian,

I would just like to also let you know what was happening that day at the practice field. Not only was I working on my model to make weight, but I was also working on an Intermediate flier's airplane. He found that his Abbra with an AXI motor and a 5000 20C pack was over by 45 grams. No 50 gram leeway in AMA so I spent about an hour grinding on his model. He probably would not have been there if he would have had to buy an $800 motor to make weight. And another Masters flier was there working on his $4000 airframe as he found it was also overweight.

But then, we were all suffering from "lack of preparation"!

BTW, how can the AMA scale be reading high? Don't they have calibrated weights to check it? Just curious.