Without a doubt, the underlying message throughout this thread sems to be that no matter whether you're a hot F-16 pilot with 300 landings on the dark side of the moon, or just a RC newbie who has just graduated from the $2 Guillows stick gliders, you need to enlist the help of an experienced RCer to get started in this hobby. Back in the old days (before buddy boxes) when we used to learn to fly at the local high school parking lot on Saturday mornings, we expected to go through a few trainers before we finally got the hang of it. (I know that Devcon made a fortune off of me back then!) That was when the trainers had .15 engines, rudder only, and flew oh so sloooowly. Now days, the average trainer sports a .40 or larger and goes faster than the neighbor's kid's Kawasaki. And to make matters even more dicey, remember that the law schools graduated 84,878,417,589,146,596,459,814,698,156,905,162,065 new lawyers last year alone. If you hit a tree, all of those starving lawyers will scramble to represent the tree!

Just because you can fly the real stuff doesn't mean you'll be a wiz at the model stuff (and vice versa.) The two worlds are only slightly related.

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