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Old 10-17-2003 | 05:56 AM
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Default RE: Why not move on to R/C ?
George wrote:

And you can have fun with the AMA Cub for about three bucks.
You have that right!! Those AMA Cubs are fun, especially when one is flying with a group of Cub Scouts whom he helped build and trim Cubs of their own!! (For any of you involved with a Pack, think Summertime Pack Activity.) I've had the a great deal of unadulterated pleasure building the old Jetco Thermic 18's and losing them OOS!

While I do not consider myself a free flight modeler, I do enjoy it on a small scale. I also attribute my being able to trouble shoot and fix basic trim problems with other types of models to my somewhat limited free flight experience. To me, that discipline may be the most challenging. One has no control whatsoever of the model once it is launched, so it had better be built and trimmed correctly if it is to perform satisfactorily. I might be a primarily free flight modeler if the area here had any relatively level, open areas under 3000' above sea level.

Suffice it to say that if all model pilots had a bit of free flight experience they would be better CL or RC pilots as well.
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