ORIGINAL: Ryan Smith
Fair enough. Who owns the scales used at the Nats, and how sure are we that the calibration weights are what they are? Also, both times I've gone to the Nats to be weighed, it was done outside, don't you think that being inside would be a much more controlled environment? I realize that it probably would be hard to do this for 100 or more competitors, many with two airplanes, but it sounds like a scale problem versus a rules problem. I think I would trust a NASA scale over about anything else.
Which is an excellent point...if 11.2 does pass, what are the logistics involved to weigh an aircraft before flight? Is this really possible on three flight lines on our budget? We'd probably need a metal POD storage unit at each line for a "weight house" seeing as tents seldom survive the week!