In reality, if electric passes, all the rules mean nothing. 

Doc brought up this proposal regarding multi-engine carrier scoring and I think it deserves some discussion. Back in the olden days, under the olden rules, the Reynolds' flew a twin F7F Tigercat in Class 2 with considerable success. They used a technique whereby the outboard engine always quit after high speed so they had the airplane yawing out during low speed. This was similar to what we get with a line slider, only it was back before line sliders were used. As with so many people who win using an unusual technique, the response was to make it illegal. This was done by trashing the score if you didn't keep all engines running through the low speed flight. Now fast forward to more recent times. A few years ago, a lot of us thought it would be nice to encourage multi-engine aircraft, hoping it would increase interest in the event and surely increase spectator interest. So a small bonus for multi-engine models was instituted. (Twins are still not very competitive for technical reasons, even with the bonus points, so building one is a labor of love, anyway. But it would be nice to see some more at the contests.) However, the vestige of that old rule banning the Reynolds' flying technique was still lurking in the rule book. This still trashes the multi-engine flier if an engine quits. The new proposal intends to limit the damage done to the score if an engine quits by removing the multi-engine bonus, but not changing the earned low speed score. I agree that the flier should keep all engines running throughout the flight, but think that the appropriate penalty is removal of the multi-engine bonus. This more modest penalty might encourage someone to build and fly a multiengine model, something I still think is a worthwhile goal of the rules proposal.
Pete