I am new to this hobby and have only been flying for a few months, but I can't resist interjecting here. I am just learning and am still flying with an instructor, a very good one I might add, but I had to learn the hard way how important a good instructor is. The first plane I built was a LT-40, I read the instructions , bought a $200.00 computer game ,and being hardheaded, believed I could teach myself to fly. This plane lasted 2 flights before a bad crash, it was a complete loss. But, no this was not good enough to teach me so I built another LT-40 and of course had similar results, but this time it was repairable.

After this I contacted a local club ( I say local, but it's 35 miles away) and asked them to help me find an instructor. They arranged for me to meet the instructor, and I am now very close to soloing. This instructor is a retired gentleman who takes away from his own flying time to help me. He had never meet me before I called the club, and the only thing he asked was that I join the club. The point of this is to say that my instructor has saved my plane several time, and that if I was not flying with him I would surly have crashed it by now. If I were to crash tomorrow, and if it was totally his fault, I would never try to hold him responsible, because without him I would have surly destroyed it long ago.

I for one am very grateful for my instructor, and we all should realize how difficult it would be to get into this hobby without help.