Our track record with the electric park flyers has been different. Even with Li-po batteries, the newbies see us flying sailplanes for 30 mintutes or more and they get real interested. Many of them are now moving toward larger, better performing e-sailplanes, and a few of us are having a ball with the small electric 3D machines and choppers. Cross-pollenation does work sometimes.
There's room for most, if not all, and especially with one of our fields being public land and shared with the local equestrians, we can't limit our help to the newbies, we educate both flying skills and the sandbox skills required to share the property. Our only restrictions are sailplane and/or electrics, no wet power as it scares the horses. It also helps to have a presence with the local hobby shops that are selling the park flyers ... we offer assistance and guidance that helps ensure a positive experience to the newcomer, and THAT you can literally take to the bank. tk --- Ray Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reminds me of one of the clubs I fly with that opened it up to > electric > flyers. Several new guys joined and most all, if not all of them had > just > the little buzzy things to fly, no electric sailplanes. The > overweight > short wing span arf's are flown all over the field without regard to > the few > soaring pilots. I was told the local power club wouldn't let them > in. > > It won't be long for this club before the dominant flyers will be the > little > buzzy things. Bye bye sailplanes. > > > Ray Hayes > http://www.skybench.com > Home of Wood Crafters __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
