Originally posted by RC Outlaw
What is this doing in beginners, Same song same people just like a club meeting!!! Beginners in back seen not heard.
SORRY Why is it alway MY field no OUR FIELD.
What better place to place this type of poll since Beginners are the ones needing the help.
I was taught for free, using the old-school "transmitter toss" method
I asked the guy twice, what I owed him, and he said I had to pass it on.
I've done that. I've taught several to fly, and never dreamed of charging for it.
C_watkins sounds to me like the "free" instruction you so fondly remember came with a price just not a monetry one.
The whole question of providing optional paid instruction seems to really generate a lot of debate.
The "old-timers" talk of responisibility dedication to the hobby and commitment as reasons why anyone dreaming of charging for instruction should be branded a greedy selfish person, yet the same old timers complian when the newbie shows up with an RTF or ARF and doesn't have the dedication to the hobby that they should. Then they complian if the newbie drops out after a season.
The newbies complian about the shortage of instructors.
Lack of individual learning and short flight sessions.
If in fact there is a shortage of voluntary flight instructors and paid instructions are not an option how does one learn to fly?
It seems to me that inorder to increase our numbers we need to find a method that allows newcommers to try this out without having to live up to someone elses expectations. We all say that our common goal should be to increase R/C avaition awareness yet something as common as paid instruction is frowned upon.