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RC hobby is enjoyable in every facet and grows with you. Some 25 years ago when my father passed me his childhood leftovers of control line gas engines and a new balsa control line kit, I was hooked. I couldn’t afford RC then, but I built and flew many a control line planes back then.

18 years later when I officially bought/got into RC, the excitement and thrill had been waiting to be unleashed. With every smell of burning nitro it brings back memories from being a kid and now I continue to be just a bigger kid - having spontaneous fun and oftentimes learning something by happenstance.

Like many, my other half approves as I’m not in a bar or chasing skirts. It is quality time with good people. Its having substantive conversations with all levels of people who share the excitement of this hobby. It is a healthy outlet of energy and time. It is the enthralling tinkering that goes into every build, repair, tweak, etc. It is reading the magazines, looking up the specifications and wondering what CC or mAh goes here or there and does this or that.

My flying buddy and I often talk about this and we throw around numbers. "This hobby is about 5% flying time and %95 everything else." And don’t get me wrong, I love wringing every ounce of nitro out of my planes. But I also try to understand and appreciate every other aspect that gets me to that %5…

In summation, it is one of my sanctities from this crazy world…

Happy Flying,

Phil Green