ORIGINAL: gboulton
ORIGINAL: pdm52956
A new guy to our club has to demonstrate to one of our instructors that he can fly competently before he is allowed to fly on his own. Of course he also needs to be an AMA member and would have to join the club. Once he is signed off by an instructor, off he goes.
Ehh....you forgot the bit where he has to explain why he doesn't build scale, fly only on the wing, and only use NiCd batteries.
But other than that, yeah...that's about how it works at our place.