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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Trostle on April 21, 2011, 10:09:10 PM

Title: 2011 Control Line Precision Aerobatics Nats Event and BOM Rule
Post by: Trostle on April 21, 2011, 10:09:10 PM

To make a long story short, I can announce that for those planning to participate in the 2011 Nats CL Precision Aerobatics event, that if your entry was legal last year under the then current BOM requirements defined in the AMA Genral section of the rulebook, it will be legal this year.  The recent changes made to that BOM rule that removed the specific interpretation for Precision Aerobatics do not change the basic requirements of the BOM rule.

The changes do not disenfranchise any particular pilot or group of pilots that competed with BOM legal models in previous years.

The AMA will support the 2011 Nats CLPA Event Director on this matter.

Keith Trostle
Chairman
Control Line Aerobatics Contest Board

Title: Re: 2011 Control Line Precision Aerobatics Nats Event and BOM Rule
Post by: peabody on April 22, 2011, 06:09:22 AM

Will the "current" ruling be posted on the AMA site?

Title: Re: 2011 Control Line Precision Aerobatics Nats Event and BOM Rule
Post by: RC Storick on April 22, 2011, 06:49:14 AM

This means if it was illegal last year its illegal this year as Well all RTF and ARF planes were illegal last year.

Title: Re: 2011 Control Line Precision Aerobatics Nats Event and BOM Rule
Post by: peabody on April 22, 2011, 10:17:16 AM

I think you could still protest the commie planes because of the "pre-finished" clause....
They weren't legal last year.....just unprotested .

Title: Re: 2011 Control Line Precision Aerobatics Nats Event and BOM Rule
Post by: Howard Rush on April 27, 2011, 11:39:22 PM

Quote from: Trostle on April 21, 2011, 10:09:10 PM

To make a long story short, I can announce that for those planning to participate in the 2011 Nats CL Precision Aerobatics event, that if your entry was legal last year under the then current BOM requirements defined in the AMA Genral section of the rulebook, it will be legal this year.  The recent changes made to that BOM rule that removed the specific interpretation for Precision Aerobatics do not change the basic requirements of the BOM rule.

The changes do not disenfranchise any particular pilot or group of pilots that competed with BOM legal models in previous years.

The AMA will support the 2011 Nats CLPA Event Director on this matter.

Keith Trostle
Chairman
Control Line Aerobatics Contest Board

OK, I think I get it.  "Average kit" could mean anything, as long as the kit isn't covered.  By 2005 it had come to mean what the words added then specified.  Removing the words does not change what "average kit" means. 

Title: Re: 2011 Control Line Precision Aerobatics Nats Event and BOM Rule
Post by: Howard Rush on April 28, 2011, 01:42:17 AM

Quote from: peabody on April 22, 2011, 10:17:16 AM

I think you could still protest the commie planes because of the "pre-finished" clause....
They weren't legal last year.....just unprotested .

I don't find "pre-finished" in the rule.  It says "covering where used".