Let me start on a positive note by saying congrats on your success thus far. I'm glad to hear that it seems to be working out for you. I too would have dumped my instructor like a hot rock if it was obviuos to me that he really wasn't qualified to train a student pilot, I don't need any demonstrations on crashing, I got that part down all by myself! I know that feeling of " is he really the guy for the job?" My original instructor found out he has cancer just before we were to start my training. So the rest of the guys at the club are trying to bring me along as best they can. I appreciate the efforts of each & everyone of them, they are all experienced flyers, but while on the buddy box I do much better with certain ones. Some guys just have an ability to teach while other don't, even though they fly great on their own. This sort of hit & miss approach is slowing my learning to fly down I believe, but you take what you can get. I don't like to take away from their flying time so I wait until someone asks, " Mark do you want to fly?" then I get a little stick time in. I'm actually thinking about getting some little parkflyer type plane, something I don't care if I crash or not, just to get more practice time in. Having said all that, I do agree with PipeMajor that it is extremely important that we do these things in a save manner that doesn't reflect carelessness & irresponsability on the R/C flying community as a whole. I know that as we speak there are many clubs fighting to keep their fields. There are lots of ppl out there that would like to see this love of ours outlawed all together. Let's not give them any more ammo to throw at us. Have fun, fly the wings off your plane, but do it in a safe manner, please!


Mark