I personally attended the 1st US RC Flight School in Shawano Wisconsin last September. It is run by a gentleman named Dave Scott. He has been at it for 15+ years and has trained over 1000 paying students. I did the club instruction thing for one summer and went to Dave's school last fall. Club instruction can be and often is very good. The one drawback can be a longer time to go solo, meeting with the club instructor regularly, having to have different instructors etc. For many who want to fly but don't necessarily have the time/flexibilty to meet with an instructor regularly to develop the skills a school is excellent. Dave offered concentrated flying lessons that result in you being comfortable as a solo flyer in 5 days. (It worked better than club instruction for me at least!) He is a very effective instructor and has developed a system that works and has published it in a series of books. Any club instructor would benefit from picking up Dave's techniques and any person who attends Dave's school gets what they pay for ($600 for 5 days) and then some back in savings as a result of not crashing multiple planes as a part of the learning process. I am all for structured instruction and a proven technique to teach r/c flying (like Dave's) and think it benefits us all by generating safe responsible flyers that are less likely to become discouraged by crashes and leave the hobby! Just my two cents worth!

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