I pay $75 per year to belong to an RC Club, I mow the grass at my home and fly control line. there are a lot of RC clubs around in my area, but there is only one control line club.

I can go to the RC field most of the time and someone will be there, the control line club in my area is one of the larger clubs. I go by their field to find nobody there flying. but the truth is if there were flyers at the control line club as often as they are at the RC club, I would be at the control line club all the time.

I have read a lot about why more people don't fly control line, and I can tell you the real answer. Given enough time most people can learn to fly in a circle just going around, but few people have been willing to take time to do it. I've had hundreds of people say to me I learned to do that when I was a kid. but when they explain how they flew, I know right away they never really learned to fly. they gave it a try an ended up crashing and gave up.

There were very few people who ever really learned to fly control line planes, and of those that did most of them only learned to go around in circles. But a pilot that really learned to fly control line, and learned to build a plane that would stay tight on the lines doesn't go in circles. He stands in one spot does figure 8's wingovers, flies inverted. and the only circles he flies in may be the first one to build up speed and the one or two circles he flies in to land after his engine tells him it is about to run out of gas.

I may be wrong but I doubt that anyone that really learns to fly control line is ever board, that falls the part to those that were never good enough fly in any direction and do any maneuvers they desired to do. I don't think anything takes the place of the thrill of holding the lines of a four pound airplane doing 75 mph and grooving through the sky.