ORIGINAL: smithcreek
ORIGINAL: Hossfly
I have NEVER seen you Instruct nor have I seen you on the instructor list, although I have asked you to do so.
Hoss, this forum is ''internet based'', not ''reality based''. If you try to mix the two, the next thing you know people will crash, and it wont' be their radios fault, they won't really know how to do a rolling harrier, their plane will stop going 150mph, and worst of all, all those hot chicks in the plane ads won't really dig rc pilots. Reality doesn't sound so good now does it?.
Smithcreek that is BS and you know it!
Too many macho's here trying to impress others by mouthing C-RAP. It doesn't really matter what the R/C instructor flies be it pattern, 3-D, sport flier, or fullscale! It really doesn't matter to a new R/C pilot as long as that R/C instructor is compentant able to give good continuity of training in charge all the time. Perhaps not the best R/C pilot, but a person able to communicate, demonstrate, and someone who knows their limits.
Many here started their aviation careers at a young age with modeling >>>>>>>>> U-Control, Freeflight, followed by R/C once it became available. Many of those modelers moved on in careers in the military or civilian aviation side, still remaining in modeling. In days of old when knights were bold there were no ARF's , package deals we all built the airplanes to fly. Not that the evolution is a bad thing its just that many skills and knowledge are being lost.
Smithcreek I question you being from Rhode Island have you ever been to Texas to visit Hossfly's field to make such a confirmed opinion about what he is saying? If not ????? What then validates your opinion? There has not been anyone here other than perhaps PilotFighter that has professed to be an instructor that is in total control of what a student will do or not. Respectfully are you as gifted as he is?
Inquiring minds would like to know? I know that I am NOT!