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Old 12-03-2010 | 06:30 AM
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tinner1
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Default RE: Is HeliX on to something.

One has to know where the hobby shops, distributors, manufacturers, clubs, flight instructors and flying fields are. How do they that? Advertise.

fliers1
First off let me complement you on your efforts teaching new people to fly, and offering the planes and time to do so. I am not criticising you but commenting as to how to find information on modeling. I have been in the hobby of modeling, NOT just RC, for over 50 years, and worked in hobby shops over the years. Now with the internet, it is even easier to find out modeling information. When I travel I ALWAYS look up local hobby shops and visit them to find out where the locals fly. I find it quite relaxing and enjoyable to meet new friends (flyers) and watch them fly. My AMA card shows I am "one of the group" who flies, and I am quite often offered a plane to fly by a "new friend". In todays world far too many people want someone else to do the work FOR them, be it building (ARFs), cutting the grass at the field, field maintainance, etc. As I stated in my first post anyone who wants to enjoy modeling will find it, it won't have to be brought to them. Besides it has been my finding with the younger generation today, that if you show modeling to them, they will mostly continue until you stop doing the work for them. Todays youth, in general, are the generation of entitlement and don't "work" for anything. They are so used to mommy and daddy "giving it to them" they won't put in the effort. REAL modeling enthusiasts will continue on their own, and will accept your help and guidence without advertising...