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Why did you learn to fly without an instructor?? - 8/3/2003 3:07:23 AM

Pjtg0707

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ctdahle
I think that second reason is the biggest one for a lot of people. The more time I spend in the hobby, the more disturbed I am at the way beginners are treated at many clubs.

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True story:

I fellow I know who used to sit front seat in a Phantom F4 during his tour in Vietnam and then as a T34 instructor until he retired from military. After military, he move onto the 727 and later the left seat of the 747 of a major airline for many years. He owns a Bonanza, a Mooney and currently building a Lancair on his property.

One day he thought it might be interesting to take up RC flying. He drove down and enquired at the local club. The ********s and clowns at the local clubs ignored him and simply treated him like persona non grata the whole time he was there.

He came home, called a contractor and paves a little runway on his property, ordered al the necessary from a mailorder house and taught himself how to fly RC.

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Why did you learn to fly without an instructor?? - 8/10/2003 8:30:06 PM

tim thompson

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Clubs are for egomaniacs! I fly off a private site for 20 years . Tried the club thing when I was 22 got screamed at by one of the club bigwigs said I dont need that and learned on a Sr. Falcon I still have and fly the plane, never crashed or dented it.

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Why did you learn to fly without an instructor?? - 8/10/2003 9:17:34 PM

rjbarthel-RCU

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From: Minot, ND,
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after a long week at work and nearly 35 hrs of over time that pay check I said its time to get a plane !!
I hit the LHS and $700 later I had a Kadet LT 40 kit and OS 40 FX and Futaba Skyport and flight box and goodies to build and fly !! this was fathers day 3 yrs ago !!
The hobby shop told me about the club and gave me the list of members and map to the field ! I built me kit in 2 days and was at the field that weekend !
I didnt know it was the spring fun fly so it was very bisy at the field but a great guy took me up and maided the LT 40 and trainer cored me a couple times .. wow I was so hooked !!!

But here comes the kicker ! I work construction and here in nothern ND its seasonal so we work on all the great flying days hahaha
I would find myself able to go fly on ugly rainy days when nobody would go out with me LOL.. also I am a single Dad of 3 young girls so that also hamppered my learning hahaha.
well I bought a GP PT-20 and a Zagi 400 and flew when I could where I could and crashed and rebuilt and bought and crashed and well i did eventualy learn to fly !!

I was an expencive way to learn but it was my fastest way given my situation..
today I have lotsa planes . some elec most glows and maybe by now around the $10,000 into gear and planes and hobbyroom! I only destroyed 1 plane during my learning always rebuildable damage other wise LOL >>
So as far as voting in your pole mmmm well I dont fit in the options available ! :

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Why did you learn to fly without an instructor?? - 8/11/2003 2:31:29 AM

Bob Talley

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Fifty years ago this month, in August 1953, I was in the USAF in Japan at Itazuke AFB. I had been building, flying and competing with FF and CL models since about 1945, even though I had been building solid models and HL gliders long before that. I had seen and helped several other potential R/C Flyers before this and had watched them all fail miserably to make even one controlled movement of their models.

Then the "Citizen's Band was opened up and I bought a Citizenship Rx and built a "Liberty Belle" from Air Trails Magazine plans. I bought a Babcock Compound escapement and borrowed a Tx. from one of my "expert" friends (who had failed in his R/C attempt). Power was an OK Cub .074 engine. I went to the only place on the base that was big enough - the softball stadium - surrounded by tall pine trees. With most of the club present, I hand launched it, flew it around inside the pine trees and when the engine quit. landed it at my feet - literally. The club members went wild.

After that, I never did get another successful flight.

When I came back to the States I got married, got out of the AF and finished college at LSU and moved to Tx, where I still live, It wasn't until some time in 1957 that I finally got my next successful R/C flight.

Bob T.

P.S. a few years ago, two of the old Itazuke AFB club members looked me up and showed me pictures of things that had happened after I had come home. There in one of the pics was my old Liberty Belle - someone else had picked it up and had flown it after me.

Bob T.

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