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taipanfc is right.. we have such a mix of nationalities here that no body mass index is going to cover us!

But at least the weigh-debate is in a proper realm now! The platform weight is just part of the equation, the crew weight is another.

Personally if someone has a lightweigh F16 (Taipan) and puts 170kg crew weight on it - what's the point? So a real debate on weight would be the crew weight!!

I think Jim Boyer had the records for the last 20 years of Nationals in Australia and if I remember correctly, the most successful weight on a Taipan was 145kgs combined.

It will be interesting to get the same fig's for the rest of the F16's.. but we might have to wait a LONG time!

In Singapore we have everything. Our lightweights are about 110kgs (combined crew weights) then we have some large 'expats' 180kgs (combined) which is sort of why 'larger' hull volume 16's are becoming popular here.

At our local events we have just about every nationality represented, that's the really nice thing about the fleet - the mark rounding are a cacophony of languages! But funny how some words sound the same no matter what the language!!!