Kid Chuckles
Cam I know you want to just discuss how a club can get these guys into there clubs and help them to get started.
I refer back to a previous statement
Joining a local club may cost as much as the Ready to Fly they just purchased ...... The first thought in their mind after charging their battery is where shall I go to fly. Why not just go out to the park and give it a try? How hard can it be?
This is the Park Flyer Pilot, those clubs interested in protecting and furthering the hobby need to address.
Foremost in my mind is that we enthusiasts make an effort to help these newbie flyers have a successful and safe flying experience. Whether they join the club or not is not my primary concern. I applaud the member who visits the local fields away from his club to assist the newbies.
We can't scour the country side looking for newbie flyers to assist. There are clubs that I expect may not want to take this burden on and will respond
This sounds like a great program. I hope you will be very successful in helping these new pilots get off to a good start and that you will see a fair number of them become members of your club.
I wonder if the member who visits the local fields is a member of such a club. While the clubs may not be prepared to take the effort to lend a hand to these newbies maybe members of the club are prepared to.
I approached a couple of members in our club to help on Saturday mornings and came up with a program outlined in the second paragraph of my first post on this thread with a link to an invitation to the newbies being distributed at our LHS. This approach I expect is only one way to get the invitation out.
I am interested in hearing what others are doing or considering.