ORIGINAL: Scott Smith
This is to Chad then...does Canada have a pattern Nat's?
(sorry for my ignorance on this!)
All I could find here on RCU was a statement you made back in 2005 which would leave me to believe there may not be such event:
Do we need a Nats in Canada? I dont know....I think the US should just refer to their Nats as the North American National Championships (much like Europe has the European championships) and call it done....we all go to Muncie every year and have a blast landing our foamies in the hotel's pools, and on the front desk in the lobby LOL. If we want to run a Canadian Nats as a side line item fine....
Hi Scott,
Yes we do, pretty much like Dave said
Due to the demographics and the size of the country its smaller than yours and generally is more regional in participation. If I can get a flying field it might be in Calgary this summer
Its interesting to read ones own comments from many years ago
I would likely disagree with myself today lol
Nearly 5 years, three jobs, and two kids later I have probably changed a few opinions as much as underwear
We did indeed remove the requirement to weigh with batteries, so in our MAAC classes (mostly identical to the AMA ones) electrics can be 5kg without batteries. I personally have not seen any significant (if any) change as a result of this. There are very few people that have the time/motivation/whatever (I certainly don't) to build a specific model to take advantage of this change. There is one interesting project going on by an Advanced competitor in BC, who is converting an old damaged Twister kit into a bipe. I am certain this model would be overweight with the FAI rules, but will probably be ok with the MAAC rules. Very few people have access to the resources that John has to do something like this though
I for one am glad that a set of rules will not stop this kind of experimentation.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Dave.Rea...rProjects0910#