Hi, Wareren: there is a control line forum at http://www.clstunt.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi They have a real nice forum not as big as RC Universe but a good forum. I'm glad to here you are starting a forum, you need to post your site address so others can visit. I belong to four or five forums including one for S.P.A.D. only.

I think the idea of exposure is the key to getting more flyers. I joined a club in my area a couple of years ago. They meet on Sundays and Tuesdays both days are bad days for me. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday I could make it to the flying field. In fact I have made it during those other days and no one is ever there. I was told by one of the members they do come out during the week. Maybe it was just a bad time that I chose the twenty or so times I went out to the site, but with it being a 23 mile drive each way I’ve been there three times when they were flying all on Sunday early afternoon. These guys are real good fliers but if your not there on a Sunday you would never know it.

I belong to a RC Club also if it’s a nice evening you can believe someone is going to be at the field flying. When I started flying control line you would see a few people from time to time at a school parking lot flying. I love control line for so many reasons, but if you are going to fly in a public place you need someone to be there with you. A stooge will launch your plane, but it won’t keep children from trying to walk up to you while you are flying.

When I started I had a friend to fly with I wanted to fly everyday, but it’s hard to fly control line alone, RC flying alone is easy maybe even preferable. How many people I have seen try to fly go less than 20 seconds crash their control line plane and give up. In RC there is someone that will teach you and do so without loosing your plane most of the time. In control line it’s usually fly or die. I learned to fly both, but it’s real easy to teach with a buddy box, and there is no buddy box for control line, and you can’t learn 300 foot in the air. Control line flying is a real challenge and most people are not up to the challenge.

If there were more control line fliers that could fly and would fly were more people could see them fly there would be more getting into the sport. Or if there was a control line simulator that used a control handle and more people could learn to fly there would be more fliers.

At $50 per 20 second flight and more like $150 for a .35 size plane the kind that really makes you want to fly most people can’t afford to fly control line planes. But no one wants to admit the reason they don’t like control line is because it’s to hard for them to learn it. I’m telling you I’ve did both and the way most people learn to fly control line is much harder to learn, and they settle for RC.

One other thing I have noticed is people will spend $ 500.00 for RC and want to spend less than $50 for control line. More exposure and more good teachers is what control line needs,

Now that’s just two cents worth more from me.