ORIGINAL: Tired Old Man

TimBle,

In your earlier post you mentioned that "a lot" of large plane fliers have someone else do all the work. If we change "a lot" to a lower value I'll agree with you. We have the same problem with small stuff now too. Buy and Fly has brought a lot of people in the hobby that have no working understanding of what they are involved with. Competition flyers frequently have others build their tools for them. I have a lot of personal experience correcting issues in aircraft that were assembled by some high level competitors. Seems many of them are only concerned with making it through a few heats in the next contests and from the nothing matters. Time has become our enemy with many having none of it to spare for recreational use. Amazing how all that modern technology that was supposed to make lives easier has ended up making life more complicated while consuming more personal time.

You are correct in another area. Teaching can be a frustrating task but you presumed that I care Most of what I do in this fourm isn't so much for teaching anymore but more to generate thoughts and decompress from work. For those purposes even those that can't stand me and what I do serve a useful purpose. They distract from my work and assist the generation of new ideas. I know I offend some people but for some avoiding offense is not possible. They would not admit they were doing something wrong regardless of the evidence presented. That would apply to just about everything they did in life. For them only the baseball bat to the forehead technique might get their attention.