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Old 06-22-2012 | 05:09 AM
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Default RE: How to handle the guys with flawed plans?


ORIGINAL: jester_s1

And, after having read the whole thread (wow!) I do want to clear up that this is not a ''club or outlaw'' or ''instructor or self taught'' thread. This is about dealing with guys who have completely unrealistic ideas about how RC flight works and plan to do something that is 99% likely to result in a destroyed airplane at the very least. Yes, there is the element to the one jerk who thinks that he's entitled to a free place to fly and free instruction (probably free help repairing too) but mostly I'm curious on how, as a representative of the hobby, to handle guys that have the wrong idea about what they should do.

Update: I talked to jerk guy again today. He's already traded off that Cessna for another EDF, a Banana Hobbies F16. He wants to swap it with me for a cheap CP helicopter which he'll destroy in about 5 seconds. I kinda want the F16, so I'm wondering how forward I should be about his plan to self teach heli flying? I did tell him what my experience was and did explain that it's a whole 'nother ballgame compared to his coaxial which he, of course, flies extremely well. I find this guy unlikable enough that I actually want to set him up to fail. Is that un-Christian of me?
Boy, Jester, you said a lot there. First of all, I was debating locking it this thread down for a while there because it seemed to be going in a rather hateful direction, but, reluctantly decided to just watch things to see how it developed. Fortunately, clearer heads prevailed and it began to go back in the right direction, and as you said, was going back to the original topic. Good stuff.

Wow.. about being Christian of you, well, I do think we all fall into that situation and do what we can to try to help out, but there is always someone out there that knows more than you or I do and is ready to tell you so. In that case, well, it may be the best idea to just let the guy fall back into his own crap and then figure out where the smell is coming from all by himself. Mainly because, as I said, they do know more than you do... We've all seen them... [&o] .

I'll step back now and continue watching.

CGr.