ORIGINAL: slg1
Most of this issue comes down to the local clubs. The local club here is a disaster. Very little help, or orginazed help anyway. To get and keep members, clubs need to cater to new people. Teach them about the ins and outs of flying and Frequency uses etc. They do pressure you to join, but give you absolutely nothing in return for investing your time and money in them. As long as clubs treat newer flyers like intruders, the more they will have to deal with people going "independent." If those who lead these clubs do not realize this point, they need to wake up.
SLG
Cupla things, SLG-
Re investing your time and money - apparently you think you are doing them a favor, somehow under the impression that you are giving more than they did. You aren't. You presume they are benefiting from enlisting new people in some some way, and so need to cater to you. Most are not. When people in clubs provide instruction, they don't do it for the pay and perks. Fact is, they're on their own time, and that part of it spent helping people like you is subtracted from the time they have to fly their own models, and I can assure you that the latter is preferred. Clubs don't help newbies, individual members do. When they encounter attitudes like you have expressed, they don't.
Abel