I also have never heard of anyone asking for money to train them. If you see any more newbies out at the field, you can warn them off about him now. I have heard of people asking for money to repair a plane. That is one drawback to an ARF or RTF, it scares newbies away from trying to do otherwise simple repairs when they don't know how it was put together in the first place. I would also suspect that some would trash a mildly damaged plane being scared to open one up.

I also haven't been able to get my Trainer out to the field, windy, raining, dark. It's amazing, every time I go outside now I check the trees to see if it's windy, didn't pay much attention to them before. Oh well, there is always the flight simulator.