Originally posted by Crashem
JR,
What in Gods name does morality have to do with purchasing a prebuilt plane????????????
nascarjoe,
As a hobby shop owner maybe you should work with a local club getting instructors to help out. And by working with them I mean provide a large yearly check to the club as an incentive to provide flight training for your customers. After all I'm pretty sure you don't sell your products at a 0% markup. Why should you expect the club to freely train people you send to them. As far as getting the industry to help foot the bill thats a great idea why don't you persue it with your distributors.
Unfortunately, although we have a county owned flying field very close, I seldom see any fliers there, let alone instructors. From what I gather in my experience with clubs, the few instructors I've come across have little to no desire to spend much if any time teaching, whether they are compensated in any form or not.
Then there is the purist modeler who has a religiously held philosophical belief that one should not have to pay to learn or be paid to teach.
I can understand just how stressful teaching is, meaning, if they are compensated to teach, they will have a moral/legal obligation to spend that much more time teaching, hence the instructor burnout I here so much about. Can't teach a lot for free, and it's even worse for instructors if they are paid. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Seeing that the industry has such an enormous vested interest in bringing in new blood, it would seem with so many highly paid business oriented professionals hired by the multbillion RC aeromodeling industry, they should have figured all this out for themselves.
nascarjoe