required to join AMA
ORIGINAL: Pappas123
All of you need to realize what you are saying. JOIN A CLUB, JOIN A CLUB. I get it. OK! </div><div>
</div><div>Secondly don't do not ever discuss or relate my real flying skills as a REAL pilot saying that ''i hope you do not use that negligence in the real airplane'' I am an amazingly safe pilot. I learned the hard way last year when my uncle died in his airplane, that there is no room for messing around in real airplanes. So please do not insult me on that. </div><div>
</div><div>Finally, the field I fly at is huge and there is never anyone around. EVER. so please keep the comments to yourselves, remember these are still models. Not real airplanes! So you do not need a license to operate one. </div><div>
</div><div>Thank you <span style=''font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; ''>
TruBlu02 for helping me out. To the rest of you stop hating on a little kid who cant afford to join a club or whose parents wont drive him. I make do with what I got!</span></div><div><span style=''font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial; font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px; ''>
</span></div><div><font face=''tahoma, verdana, arial''><span style=''font-size: 11px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 1px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 1px;''>Sorry if this offended anyone All i wanted to know was a tuning question!</span></font></div>
RCKen's post did a wonderful job of explaining that we do not intend to insult you. We want to help you. We also want to help our hobby. That's why we feel a need to point out to you that you are doing something that can be unsafe. It not only can help keep you out of trouble, but can help keep the hobby out of trouble, too. While reading your post, I think you have a few misconceptions.
1. No, I don't think you do "get it". I don't care if you EVER join a club. I think you'd get more enjoyment out of the hobby if you did, but that's up to you.
2. There is "no room for messing around" with RC airplanes, either because:
3. They ARE real airplanes, only smaller. The plastic model planes you hang from your ceiling are toys; ours are not. And, when not flown in a safe manner, they can be just as dangerous as full scale aircraft.
4. If enough people fly their RC planes in improper places, a license
will be required. We may be headed in that direction already. Before the end of the year, you
might be required to join AMA, but that's a whole different discussion.
5. The only reason I question your attitude in the full scale is that I've found that most truly safety concious individuals carry that attitude to everything they do.Likewise, those that disregard safety rules in one area tend to cut safety corners in other activities, as well. I apologize for implying that you might be an unsafe pilot.