ORIGINAL: MajorTomski
I'm sorry Horace, what did I do to piss you off?[X(]
You have never met me, you have never experianced me teaching, you have never spoken to the 40 or so people I've ''instructed'', yet you have the gaul and audacity to accuse me of creating unsafe RC fliers!!!???
Major, I have read a fair number of your posts. As I recall They were all A-OK, informative and significant contributions. However when you come out with this statement:
ORIGINAL: MajorTomski
I've been teaching from a KISS principle for the last 15 or so years.
The principle is virtually NO ONE who wants to learn to fly an RC plane wants to or NEEDS to learn ANY aerodynamics theory. I teach the simple mechanics of how to get the plane safely in the air and back down again in one piece. If they want to talk aerodynamics and phyics they can go learn that on their own...LATER.
There IMO spoils a good record. I have been a strong aeromodeler for since the late '40s in CL. FF, and since 1971, RC. As a pilot for 41 of those years, Aviation Safety is a big thing YET, such is sorely dismissed within the RC fraternity. Instructors (??) get a novice OK to get up, steer around, and get it down, being totally oblivious to the lethal instrument that said novice is steering and has little or no comprehenson of how/why the airplane is doing what it is doing. I have witnessed many accidents, and near accidents, and was myself, almost hit with a screaming warbird when a rather new RC airplane-driver, trying to impress the crowd, became completely overcome and lost total control, said airplane came straight down hitting the dirt about 2 feet behind me, as I was briefing another newbie. One person said he tried to yell at me, but nothing would come out of his mouth. [:'(]
When I see a so-called instructor sending a person out to fly among other pilots and spectators, and said person is barely able to steer the machine around, much less be thinking what could happen within the next several minutes, then I get somewhat concerned. So I will speak up when someone is unsafe within normal reasonable safety precautions that should be observed, and TAUGHT prior to saying "Go DO IT!".
JETMECH 05 makes a very good point.
All based on a two paragraph statement. Wow you're good.
If you see a car speeding down the cross street to an intersection that you are about to enter, and your light is green, do you totally disregard it even though you have the "...right of way?" Well NA' ME daddy-O!
All round nice guy too.
In all reality, I don't doubt that you are, just a tad too optimistic concerning the potential of a newbie RC Pilot.
