JH313 As a relitively new flyer I applaud you for becoming an instructor/mentor for your friend and possibly others. Its difficult at times to maintain talented valenteers to do so.

A very big part of instructing is not just the ability to fly the airplane but even more so is communication skills as is the ability to anaylize the manuvers being done. And I have always beleved that being an active instructor is one of the best ways to really learn how to fly and improves ones own performance all the way around.

Having said that though I feel that to begin instructing in a type of model that you are not familiar (park flyer) is a poor choice. If you have only flown forty sized glow ships like you indicated in your first post then to jump right into teaching with parkies may be a poor choice. The effect of this may hinder your success with your friend.

John