Chris,

I totally agree with everything you said. I don't mean to put down the use of the buddy-box, but it seems that 99% of people have been trained with the buddy-box, which more or less doesn't allow the instructor to see what the student is doing with his fingers on the sticks.

What Ray Smith and I are trying to do is simply let people know that there is an viable alternative training method to the buddy-box and pass the tx method. I wouldn't bother explaining how kinesthetic instructing until I keep reading of all the problems instructors are having in using the buddy-box, but you are quite correct in that there are probably too many instructors who don't really understand how to teach. I've seen too many instructors simply stand their and basically save the plane and hope that his student teaches himself. This may go on one day a week for years and years, until the student finally teaches himself how to fly or simply quits and finds something else to do. The instructor then blames the quitter student for not having what it takes.

Have you seen what I've been up to introducing RC aeromodeling to the entire NYS school system? NYSTEA (New York State Technology Education Association) If you like, for more info, you could email NYSTEA president Tom Frawley. ([email protected])

http://www.mfarchive.modelstuff.co.uk/mf045/postbox.htm

Take care,
CCR
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