Originally Posted by fly24-7

Unfortunately, the club I belonged to back in Chicago did not have such an approach. I recommended instituting such a policy and my fellow board members decided that they were more worried about offending members than ensuring that everyone knew what they were doing. And we had members who's checkbooks trumped their skills and sensibilities. The equipment they flew far exceeded their skills and you always headed "under the pavilion" when they flew. We also had members who were excellent pilots that I learned a lot from over the years...

I also had the opportunity to engage in lengthy discussions with Dave Scott, who I met through a mutual friend. Dave runs an RC school in Wisconsin and is an instructional editor for Model Airplane News. I learned a tremendous amount from him as well, particularly on instruction techniques. There are a lot of great resources in the RC community if one is open minded to continued learning.