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By the way... our local club only charges 25.00 per year.

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MinioN - Do you have a flight simulator? How do you intend on learning how to fly?

The other hobbies I enjoy are Piano and Guitar. If your at all musically inclined watch those fingers!

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Yes I do have a flight simulator, I can pretty fly and land any plane that it has to offer.

I am just pretty bent on how some people's reaction is to this. When I take my neighbors kids out, and teach them how to fish it is not like I pressure them to join a club. Hell, more people in my hobby the more the better.

I do plan on getting help, this thread was about my engine, not about me flying. The forums can help with with the "how to" and mechanical side to this hobby. And I am perfectly aware that nobody can explain how to fly these planes through text.

I do not play guitar or any instrument, but I do play video games and I have excellent hand eye coordination.

Just seems like everyone is wanting to sell there club. Not saying you guys are, but that is the reason why I tend to avoid those places.

And Yes I am completley aware of how much space it take to fly one of these planes. I have some property already picked out and the owners are already notified. So a place to fly isnt that tough here in texas, it is learning how to fly.

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MinioN

I know that I can't help you because we are several thousand miles apart, but what you have been going through seems to be the norm and not the exception, that is judging from what I hear from too many newbies in the hobby.

Locally, I have a program where anyone can fly either my airplane or helicopter for free, just to see if they might like the hobby. Then we supply training for both airplane and helicopter. Wouldn't be great if all hobby shops offered such service?

Nascarjoe

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You forget that the reaction to your engine problems was to get help *with the engine* from someone first hand. Running a glow engine is as much art as it is science. We can't see your setup, nor can we see your procedures. You might describe all the things you feel are important, yet miss the critical item. The people giving advice might miss something that's critical to your success. Even if everything that needs to be discussed is discussed, there can still be things lost in the terminology.

Don't be defensive. People aren't pressuring you to join a club--they're reading your post, assessing your knowledge and skills, and recommending what they feel is the course of action most likely to ensure your success.

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I fly at 3 sites.

Two are club operated sites, one is a city park.

One club site requires AMA membership and will be upset if you don't belong to SOME club and "visit" the field every week for 6 months. The other club site requires AMA only because the site lease requires it. Thier site lease also requires them to allow any AMA member to fly without club membership. (strange lease...) The city park has no posted rules of any nature. The city requests AMA membership for the insurance, but no one ever checks, and about 1/2 the people that fly there don't have it.

I am on the instructor list for the first club... and I have given lessons at the city park. The other club requires a proficiency test to become an instructor, an they want the instructors to be members of thier club. Since I only fly there about once in 3 months... I decided not to join.

If someone has a reasonably close flying site and needs help... I'd go help. Its part of promoting the hobby and promoting safety to help any beginner learn to fly. I don't care if the beginner is an AMA member or a club member... I want them to learn to safely handle the meat chopper we call a propeller and I want them to learn to have good control of thier model so they can keep it from hitting people.

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I remember hanging out at the field before I started. Just wanted to see what it was about. There was this time two of the old farts... sorry.. where looking at an airplane. They were really giving it the once over. They kept talking about the ailerons. Everything looked just fine to me. Come to find out the ailerons were not even, one up just a bit, one down. To me they looked fine. This plane, if it got off the ground, would have spiraled out of control. EVERYTHING has to be just right on an airplane. If it is not, it is not as simple as just pulling over to the side of the track.

I guess I am beating a dead horse...but...

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Ok, I just found a person who is not in AMA and has a field that he will teach me how to fly. And no club to join, just your common man.

Thats really what I was looking for.

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Save some planes and get a sim!!!!!!!

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I do have a sim

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MinioN, finding that guy is first step to enjoying a really great hobby or addiction, depending on how you look at it. Have fun.