ORIGINAL: RCKen

Yep, as David said, there are buttheads everywhere. Talk to the officers of the club at the field and see what they say about the situation. Most clubs realize that new members are what keep their clubs alive. As for the guys that hog the air. Ego is usually everything to them. A few well placed comments are all it takes to deflate those egos sometimes. "You know, with as much as you hog the air I would have figured you would be a better pilot!" "Is that all you can do??? " "Ok, I've seen you fly. I'm still not impressed."

That may sound silly, but I'm not kidding. Watch pilots like that. They won't fly unless there is a crowd to watch them. If there isn't a crowd, they'll wait for one to gather. The ones that drive me totally up the wall are the guys like this (attention hogs) that stand down on the end of the flight line and keep yelling "hey, watch this!!!" arrgghhh.

Ken