Hey guys, just wandering if anybody else ever has the same problem I do. I am a instructor along with a couple of other guys at our club. And on the pretty weekends we usaully have more students than instructors. It seems like between training for IMAC and instructing it is hard to find time to go over a plane completely before a test flight for the newer guys at the field. I usually just get a chance to ask them if the batteries are good if the CG is close before the flight. Sometimes I land one plane and they already have the engine running and tuned up on the new one. Like doing a driver change in nascar, and it drives me crazy. I don't want to be a jerk and tell them to tear it all apart so I can look inside and say ok, because half the time they won't listen anyway. I remember years ago when someone braught a new plane to the field there would be a circle of old guys going over it. I was a early teen at the time but now I'm one of the old guys so don't get mad old guys!! I think alot of it has to do with the ARF revolution and that people just are not as interested at looking at a cookie cutter plane. Which I have to say, I do miss all the neat kits coming out and all of the different planes always at the field, but I am as guilty as anyone else about having the arfs in my garage.

Back to the subject obout about crappy preflights, I have had a couple of close calls do to elevator related problems control arm coming off elevator and 2/56 rod pulling out of dowel rod. I was able to get the planes down both times, but how many times can thing happen and your skill and luck get the plane back. I wish we could go back to the old days where everyone helped the new guy instead of just a couple of over worked guys trying to get everybody in the air a few times a day. Does anyone have any problems like this or is it just a problem at our club. I am pretty new at this club but it seems to be alot the same other places I go. I was atlking to a kid at a funfly a few weeks ago that has been trying to learn to fly and keeps tearing up his plane, he said no one will help him when he comes out, so he takes off crashes and walks out to pick up the pieces himself, we still always have a recovery posse when a plane goes in, maybe because they want to see the wreckage. But I was just wandering if this is the trend we are in now or if it is a isolated thing.



Why dont the plane move with the sticks!!