PilotFighter,

I really think some of your statements are a bit harsh! Especially to others here willing to donate their time and money to assist new pilots wanting to enjoy this great hobby.

Are you saying without question that with your ability that there would NEVER be a situation that a R/C student might place you in which you would not be able to recover from?

In my time as an Air Force pilot with 45yrs of total combined flight experience we had instructors die with their students and they were in the cockpit. Although there are some similarities between full scale and R/C there remains a big difference, its just visual eye to hand coordination no instrumentation.

Your ability to instruct one to fly an R/C airplane that your not sitting in able to react in less than perhaps a second to bailout a problem perhaps on takeoff or landing near the ground consistently without fail is amazing. My hat is off to you!

Its interesting in automobile braking studies reaction times with people knowing there was going to be a problem the reaction time on average was not all that quick. They were at the controls! Even though a R/C instructor has the student on the buddy cord there is a delay in reaction time for recovery beyond that if the instructor would be flying solo.

IMO no one is bulletproof while instructing R/C!