For a few weeks now this subject has come at our club and I feel that at some point it will need to be adressed and was wondering if any other flying sites have as yet taken on this seeming difficult subject? Today in the hobby many people show up at the field with park flyers. some are very good with these planes and solo with one. We have a qualifying test at our field, but here is the delimma. If someone show up at the field and qualifies with one of these planes, say a wingo for example, club rules says he can fly without the help of an instructor. Now if the next week the guy shows up with a forty or larger glow powered plane we by must let him fly because he has the little blue dot on his club card (signifying that he has qualified). But certainly this is much more plane than the wingo. my question is this do some clubs have different qualification for the hand launched electrics as opposed to glow powered and if so what restrictions is there. also now days some electrics are highly aerobatic and a pure handfull to fly (Think of Jason at the worlds). So where is the line drawn, do you used the ability to take off as a criteria, or some other method to determine qualification. I know I would be very nervous if someone who have only flown (and qualified) with a Wingo to sudddenly start a take off run with me on the flight line. So guys what do we do, how do we address this issue and what are other clubs doing?/


Terry