i am probably the last guy on the face of the earth that wants htis, but it probably is time for an organised training sylabus for r/c.
we got folks comming in to the hobby, not because of a life long love of flight, but because the arf/rtf was on sale at hobbies are us or someplace. they need a little time spent in dedicated training about safety stuff and some time spent in the common courtisy stuff that we all expect at the flying field. it probably should be nationaly standardised, and shouldn't require more than 8-12 classroom hous to complete. for the most part, it could probably be done between training flights on one weekend.
i know that i have found and made arangements with the city fathers for a place to fly by myself, party because of the growing uncomfortable feeling i was getting at club fields with all the newbies doing stuff that i find just plane scarey.