A friend of mine(one of my roommates actualy) whos is considering getting a sailplane or a 3ch parkflyer(he has stroke damage to his left hand and couldnt fly a four channel plane) were talking last night, and i came up with kind of a funny classification system for beginners coming into the hobby. Some of you older more experienced guys tell me if it rings true or not


The "learn on a 1/4 scale p-51, at the school yard" phase:
Ok, admit, EVERYONE who looks into this hobby starts with this phase. Might not be a p-51, but when you first start looking at planes, You want the biggest and coolest toy on the market. Your also firmly convinced this cant be that hard and it will be a short easy matter of learning.


Now heres were you break down into the individual categorys, I came up wiht three:

The "ok so i cant do it alone.......What now" group:
These folks are the ones whove admitted to themselves, "alright scratch the large plane, scratch the by myself, as much as i dont want to im gonna get help". these folks do the old tried and true method of an instructor and a trainer, and tend to succede.

The "OK the big plane is to hard to fly, but Ill get this easy gadget ladden thing and do it myself, its easy":
These folks are still to stubborn to just take help and have to do it the hard way. They seem to be the ones most famed for"i did it on the simulator perfectly i can fly the real thing". They also tend to be the most willing to buy the new toys and gadgets on the market. ALthough some are moderatly succesful, most tend to trash the plane and sell the scraps, or end upp going to a field and getting help.

The "DONT WANNA, DONT WANNA, DONT WANNA!!!" group:
And here we get the hard heads. These folks are bound and determined there going to do it there way, and nobody, no matter the experience level, is going to tell them there wrong. If you say "tried and true" your an old fart trying to stop there fun. While the most fun to watch make arses of themselves, they usualy tend to destroy the most expensiv stuff



Well theres the Aggie beginner classification method. I do realise that SOME folks are self taught by force and not by choice, but i think that pretty generaly clumps them into groups(note, I'm tlaking RANK new guys here, not the "i can fly so now what".....wich is pretty much were i fall).

thought that might get a luagh since noone seem to care about my build thread [&:]