I'm new and thought I might be able to fly my Xtra Easy 2 trainer around a bit on my own. Lucky for me I went to a club first. A bunch of great guys there looked my plane over, adjusted it, pointed out I had servo reversal turned on for my rudder [X(] and a few other things. Then one of them took it for a short flight and pronounced it a decent flying plane. They did all this for me, and I wasn't even a member! I saw right away what an advantage all of those seasoned friendly pilots could be. I joined AMA and their club (CARDS of Lansing Michigan) right away. Heck, just watching some of them who are IMAC? champions doing incredible stuff with their planes was worth the membership. - Joe