MikeL: >>>>"Horrace and Crashem,
Do either of you have a desire to be a paid instructor?"
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Horrace here: Not just NO but HE_L NO!

I don't want to instruct anymore, yet I feel very guilty when I turn away those wanting instruction as there is only one person besides myself in my 100+ member club that will freely give his time to others.

MY CASE IS SO FAR DIFFERENT THAT IT CANNOT BE CONSTRUED AS AN EXAMPLE. READ IT:

I purchased 100 acres prime farmland (cash deal) for my club to buy some from me at same price I paid per acre. I now hold their mortgage. (You never hear me being a club officer.)

If I wanted to be PAID, they definitely violate adequate deed restrictions so that I could reposses the property at near any time.
I could turn this magnificent RC facility (water, electrics, kitchen, indoor facilities, 3800 sq. ft over concrete, another 1200 in the works, etc. etc. etc. into a very big RC SCHOOL. AMA be da--ed.
Or just start a school next door.

DON'T WANNA' DO THAT! Just WANNA' CLUB!

I do most of the instructing because am I a very good Instructor (Trained in instructing in USAF - taught various academics and instructed in both the T-33 & T-38 plus navigation and bombardment in SAC B-47s, 30+ years experience in RC plus over 20 years CL/FF prior to that.)

I know RC, know proper aviation procedural flying, know MODEL BUILDING from the ground up, so I am in demand. However at 67 I still want to do some advanced stuff FOR ME, FOR ME, however I find it difficult to say NO, not only for the newbie, but FOR THE CLUB.

If I wanted PAY, I can sell 50 acres next to Jetero's 30 acres now for what I paid for the entire 100 acres 7 years ago. Still would have 20 acres for down the road.

I wanna' TURBINE. I wanna' train myself with my TWO DF jobs that I haven't yet got together. Both or B Violett's kits.

I'm running out of time. AMA's childish attitudes -- and these threads portray a lot of childish immaturity within these ranks -- simply keep me tied down, along with a 100 or so people all discussed in post 106.

Every time I tell a beginner it's too windy for him, I feel that ol' conscience start to pain. Yep, I do have one. However the pains are getting more frequent!!! Know whut Ah meannn???