I know exactly what you mean.. We have had our share of those as well. I hope I live long enough to have to hang it up from being an old fart !!!!! One of the funniest things I saw at our field years ago was one of the old timers like you described, went out to fly a hand launch plane and he threw the transmitter instead of the plane !!!!!! I was in tears and pee'd my pants I was laughing so hard !!!
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Oh well, as long as nobody gets hurt or damages someone elses stuff, you got to laugh !!!!
later !!
Dan M.