Yea JT the guys are getting to be better pilots all the time and I know they could handle the planes themselves, it is just getting them to trust themselves. Yesterday we had a guy try to test fly his hellcat it ended up destroyed in the dirt. There was a cross wind and he had a engine failure and you can imagine the results. That kind of thing seems to scare the less experienced pilots to trying test flights. I can understand them, because I had flown a couple of years before doing my first test flights, and after over at least 200 of them I still get nervous at times. But, I didn't mean for this post to get so side tracked in blame, I am interested in what the hobby is going to in the next few years, and what it is going to be like. I am afraid it is heading in the direction of everybody showing up to fly, a screw everyone else attitude. I don't want to lose the days I had as a bright eyed kid being adopted by a bunch of old men telling stories all day long, and flying some neat planes. I would like for my kids to have the cherished times I did at the flying field, and I don't think it will ever be like that again. Lets all get together and quit bickering about club decisions, rules, people and all the other stuff that becomes political bs, leave our little groups and go talk to the guy that is standing there by himself and give him a hand, or invite that little kid on the bleachers to fly your plane. We need to get the magic back in flying or there will be no reason to fly anymore.

Thanks everyone,
Mike

If at first you don't succeed, fly again!![8D]