Insanemoondoggie

Is it flying skill that makes a newbie not a newbie? or does it take an instructor to say you are part of the fold ?
Or? Are we all Newbies, playing at differet levels ?

Mr67Stang

If anyone says they know it all... well you never stop learning in this hobby. we are all new at some level... For example; I will willingly take any trainer or sportplane up without fear of my skills. I am a Newbie in the arena of gasoline power and am starting to become more comfortable with it now in my 1/4 scale Cap 232 w/ an Evolution 35GT. So I would say your last statement is correct for me. We are all Newbies in our own level.

Insanemoondoggie

LOL! I hear ya! Asked the gang about going to Gas. They replied, How would you feel if it cost you $1500.00 instead of $450.00? to smuck an airplane.
H`mmm I wonder how they know I`m so good at smucking ? Most of them no longer run under the shelter when I fly , well , maybe one or two ,
Come to think about it. I fell like running under the shelter when I fly!

LANNYBOB

your not a newbie anymore when you show a veteran flyer a thing or two.

LANNYBOB

actually your not a newbie anymore when your can takeoff and land well, and tune your engines on your own. you must also have 2 planes in your hangar and working on your third. those are the rules.

bingo field

Does this mean I should have passed on my beanie with the propeller on it a couple of years ago?

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Live Wire

Newbie no learning stage yes I do not believe there is such a thing as a newbie. It is some one wanting to learn let them learn and help them in any way you can.
Larry K

agexpert

My Feedback: (1)

Newbie here,

I am still a newbie; prolly always will be. I have been through glow and moved to gas. I like 3D .... OK, .....I love 3D. I can tune either type of motor, and fly them. I have built 2 simple kits and several ARFs. I have been known to teach 'veteran' flyers a thing or two, but I always learn something more valuable in return. I fly every day before, (sometimes during), and after work if the wind allows. I have made just about every stupid and costly mistake you can make in this hobby, some of them twice.....and others even more.

I hate club politics, *****ing, whining and rule making...I just like to fly. I am a member of several clubs and have attended only one meeting and that was an accident. (They had the meeting at the field while I was flying; how rude). I choose to fly with people who are better at my style of flying than I am. (That seems like the only sure way to improve). I have no time for people who simply want to talk about flying or fret about not flying nor complain about how others fly differently than they do, (slow repetitive circles).

I have been reading and studying products, techniques and industry trends to see what might catch my interest. I have worked with designers, beta testers, reviewers, marketers and manufacturers in the model plane industry for my own knowledge and enjoyment. I have gotten good advice from some of the best flyers in the world and seen some of the most amazing flying ever done.

After all this, I am still a newbie, ready and willing to learn from ANYONE who may help me fly better and perhaps enjoy this fine hobby even more than I already do.

I hope you will never stop being a newbie. The alternatives are 'know-it-all', 'grumpy old man', 'too good for everyone else', 'complainer', 'wanna be', and worst of all, 'new rule come-up-wither guy', also known as, 'ban-everything guy'.

I have found a home in this hobby by being a perpetual newbie. I doubt that will ever change...and I only soloed like 20 months ago.

GO NEWBIES!!

LANNYBOB

you aint no newbie agexpert your on your way to become a leader for others to follow. you take it seriously.

Alex7403

Im a Newbie for about 20 years (with big brakes), and ill stay newbie for Lonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggg time!

1) in this hobby its not a shame to be a newbie unlike other hobbies like ski

2) newbies learn new stuff, and in this hobby only the sky is the limit...

3)when you know it all, its not interesting any more.

4) when I think I know it all, then I crush somehow

bruce88123

I'm definitely not a newbie, been doing this too long. But I am also definitely still a learner and hope THAT never stops. It'll get boring if I stop learning.

mbilar1

1. As long as you have a question you don't have the answer to that someone else might have.

2. This beginners forum seems to be the most-read forum, even if your topic might be more appropriate in another forum (i.e. How do I clean and restore an old engine?) could or should be in the engines forum.

(Just my 2ΒΆ, and I have already gotten INVALUABLE info, in fact most everything I know, from reading the beginners forum.)

Flak

My Feedback: (1)

Once you can fly on your own with confidence and safety, you are no longer a Newby. You can always learn more and become better.

LuftwaffeOberst

Well said Flak! However I agree to all that was mentioned so far. As soon as I state to people I'm good, something happens to make me say I suck. [sm=lol.gif]





Luftwaffe Oberst
Radio Aero Modelers Club
AMA District II
Pulaski, NY

Shortymet55

I think your no longer a newbie, when you move onto a second plane, as long as you can actually control it. AND when you learn all the basic knowledge of the hobby. Really, just because you still learn stuff doesn't make you a newbie. Id the was true, then everyone would be a newbie, so the term newbie would be pointless, and then we would just stop useing it. So if you successfully learned to fly a trainer will precision, and you know all the basic knowledge that goes along with engines, electronics, how the plane works, then you have graduated to not newbie.

broke_n_bummin

Every $1,000, you move up a level ...

Insanemoondoggie

Now that one I understand. lol

donkey doctor

Hello; I have always considered a newby a graduate pilot when he is flying the plane under his own control, as opposed to following it around the sky and reacting to what it does. I like the concept that a newby is athirsty learner, trying to absorb all he/she sees. I'm well past my second plane, but when it comes to 3D, I'm a newby.