Originally Posted by
astrohog
Really? That's funny, none of that stuff existed when guys used to carve their own props, yet the hobby has thrived! It is a backwards narrative that American's have blindly adopted as our lives became ridiculously easy, "Bigger is better". It is simply not always true.
Fair point that a few diehards will continue on no matter what the circumstances. But most of us would probably find other interests. I am a builder and I much prefer building to flying, but would probably draw the line at machining my own retracts, carving my own props, and soldering together my own receiver (but would probably toss around a few foamboard creations for as long as my current stock of electronic holds out).
I agree that we tend to have things way too easy today, but then our grandparents probably said the same about our parents, and so on all the way back to the days of the cave man
