ORIGINAL: Scote
If I go to a contest in the US is my Canadain plane going to have to make weight with batteries in?
Maybe, but if you talk nice to the CD maybe he will convert the Canadian weight to US weight at the current USD to CND exchange rate...that should help keep you under LMAO!
Archie is right, you will likely never ever be checked. That was part of the reason for getting rid of the weigh with batteries rules up here. Secondly (since it was my proposal that got it changed) I felt it was not fair to force people to use lipo's at the time, as they were very expensive. It would open the door to A123's and similar packs. There are at least two guys in Calgary flying pattern using Dewalt tool batteries that would likely not meet the weight rules if forced to weigh with batteries. This way they are perfectly legal at any contest (at least in Canada).