Dennis,

I can't answer for all the newbs on this forum, but just for myself. I have never said thanks to any answered question that I have posted. But I have almost always ended a posting with a "would be greatly appreciated" and always a "thanks" at the end with my name, thats just good etiquette. I started a couple of thank you post when I first started to visit this forum, but deleted them, figureing it just wasn't needed. I'm not saying that the responces weren't appreciated, just figured that the person already knew that the time they took to answer was appreciated in advance from my closing.

Now with that said, I would like to say that I do appreciate the responces that my post have gotten, and Dennis you would be one in particular, as you have responded to just about every post I have put on this forum. But I would really like to thank everybody for the responces to postings that I had nothing to do with but read and gain so much knowledge from. I have learned more from reading others postings then from my own, I guess thats why my post are so few. I have found that the questions I generally have about this hobby have been covered many times, some questions admittedly many more times than others. And I have found a search will usually be responded with a flood of info from the past postings.

So Kirk some of us newbs do know how to use that search feature .

And because of these past responces I have spared myself from making the wrong choices in equipment to purchase, trying to learn to fly on my own, and have also guided me in making the right choices in equipment so I can save money in the long run for future projects. (Although my wife still doesn't believe it and wants proof ), and finding a local club to fly with.

So I know I went a little off the posted topic a bit, but I just wanted everybody to know that even if I don't respond with a thanks to a post, I will reitterate, it doesn't go un-appreciated. I would truly be lost without the help of the people who take there time to answer the many questions put forth by me and others every day here on RCU. Keep it up, the great advice and knowledge given here to us newbs now can then be given by us to the newbs of the future, a legacy in the making I quess. So even if a few may not respond with a thanks, including myself, I believe that there are more of us newbs on here who feel as I do, even if we don't say it after a responce is given.

Jim Starbuck