And from a modeler's perspective, full size aircraft pilots are a PITA to teach how to fly. Especially since they are absolutely convinced that they know everything and that they can fly a model airplane without instruction. They are not aware that over a century's worth of dumbing-down full size flight instruction to the point where anyone can get a license has removed all of the engineering knowledge that the early full size pilots had to learn. Or pay with their life for not learning in their primitive aircraft. Modelers are still stuck with having to learn the engineering if they design/build/fly their own aircraft. So how do you teach someone without engineering skills when they are convinced that they are superior to their lowly model instructor? I don't. Not my problem any longer.


Ed Cregger