I built an Eagle 2 with an OS 60 about three years ago. I decided to join the local flying club at the same time to get help in learning to fly it. Before I tackled the Eagle 2 building project I built two rubber powered free flights ( a Cub and a Texan) to polish up on my rusty building skills. After building three planes in a two month period, in what turned out to be a room with not enough ventilation, I developed pulmonary difficulties from CA exposure. More on that later. So I join the club and although the members seem to be fairly nice people and there are at least 3 helpful instructors around most of the time I find the learning curve to be way to shallow and after about six months I hang up the Eagle. I would say 80 percent of the time I would go to the flying field and there was no instructor there, or it was too windy or there were 3 or 4 newbies ahead of me waiting for help. There were times I would go and hang around all day and not fly once. All this time I am feeling crappy because of the CA lung thing, coughing non stop for six months, pulling muscles in my chest. So I gave it up.

Now I am back trying again, this time learning on my own with park flyers. I am starting with a Firebird Outlaw. After two weeks of success with this limited two channeler I am ready for plane no. 2. I decided on a Leonardo three channel set up and look forward to its simple construction (well ventilated this time with as little CA as possible). I look forward to checking back with questions as I take the second step.

Thanks,

Tim