ORIGINAL: TonyF
No manufacturer will come out with a low-cost 2-meter ARF pattern model that cannot make the weight limit. Even if it's not measured at every other contest but the Nats, just watch what would happen to them once people started posting here that there model is over the limit.
It's not just low cost 2M pattern planes that cannot make weight. I'm sitting on a very expensive brand name pattern plane that won't make weight. As tempted as I am to trash the manufacturer and their response, I'm still biting my lip hoping they'll have a change of heart before I start my own:
"Who else's XXXX is an overweight piece of XXXX ?" thread.......