The results of the initial vote by the Scale Contest Board have been posted on the AMA website.  I have not gone through all of them, but there is one significant proposal that did pass which is CLS 11-22 which proposes to establishes a Control Line Precision Scale event.

Clancy Arnold is to be commended for taking the initiative in the last days of submitting proposals to get this proposal before the Board.  Without this proposal, there would be no type of control line precision scale event in the rulebook.  Good for Clancy.

Keith

Review of Initial Vote of the CL Scale Board

Good news – 
CLS 11-19  Requirements for the “Pilot Figure” are clarified.
CLS 11-21  Add new event 527 CL Team Scale
CLS 11-22  Add new event (###) New CL Precision Scale

Bad news –
All attempts to Relax the requirements for a  new contestant in CL Fun Scale to "fly what they brought" were all rejected.  CLS 11-1 Allow profile models in CL Fun Scale, CLS 11-12 Remove requirements for Dummy Pilot, Retract gear and Mandatory throttle,
CLS 11-14 Change CL Fun Scale into two skill levels as is the current rule for CL Profile Scale (BUT that event is not run as two skill levels)

Other proposals that failed the Initial Vote.
CLS 11-11  Change wording on when to score a flight option.
CLS 11-18  Four (4) point bonus for BOM in CL Fun Scale.
CLS 11-20  Drop Event 510 / F4B from the AMA list of events.  The Board may be planning to use this event number for the New CL Precision Scale. (See Good News above)  I do not have an opinion, if this is their plan.

Work that still needs to be done.
Now is the time to submit Cross Proposals to any of the Rules Change Proposals that passed the Initial Vote.  Here is the opportunity to change the “18 Foot Rule in F4B.”  The current F4B rule specifies 6 meters (19 ft 8.22 in) height for Normal Flight level.  Three (3) meters (10 ft) seems to be the concensus of what it should be.

Clancy

So throttle is mandatory in C/L Scale?
Chris...

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Now is the time to submit Cross Proposals to any of the Rules Change Proposals that passed the Initial Vote.  Here is the opportunity to change the “18 Foot Rule in F4B.”  The current F4B rule specifies 6 meters (19 ft 8.22 in) height for Normal Flight level.  Three (3) meters (10 ft) seems to be the concensus of what it should be.

Clancy

Just understand that the AMA does not make changes to the F4B rules: only the FAI can make those changes. If you want to make F4B changes, you need to get them into the AMA well before November 15, 2011 (right: 2011) so they can be submitted to the CIAM for consideration at the 2012 FAI CIAM Plenary meeting. That is the next chance for making changes to the FAI F4B rules.

Regards,

Bill Lee

Paul
You are correct.  I should have said to be competitive --.

BillLee
The decision to drop CL Scale F4B from the FAI rules has allready been made.  See Proposal CLS 11-20 submitted by Charlie Bauer.

The rules Change Proposal CLS 11-22 establishes a new event to replace the old  AMA precision Scale and the loss of F4B.  It is to be called New Control Line Precision Scale and to use the existing 2010 F4B rules until a complete set of new rules can be written and approved.

Clancy

Only if some country doesn't step up and promote having a World Scale Championship for Control Line.  According to some forums there are countries still havig meets and get togethers for F4B Scale.

Who will build a model for precision scale/F4B/whatever without some continuity in the rules that will allow such a model to compete for a few years. It takes about a year or much more and good bit of money to build a model for any of those scale classes.

It probably won't affect me much either way. There are virtually no scale contests around here (Washington/Oregon) -- there is one on the schedule this spring. I build to satisfy myself, but if I go to a contest, I like to know what I'm getting into. Contests are fun when they bring like-minded people together and a trophy in a class of one doesn't offer much satisfaction no matter what the personal justification is. I'm not likely to go to the Nats because of the cost and time it takes, but that would be my only chance to compete against a high level of building/flying skill.

It's quite a contrast with the local PA scene, which doesn't get much better for building or flying skill.

John Witt