ME: Hey what channel are you on? PFG: I dunno ME: Well you might be interfering with our club field across the street, you don't want to shoot down one of those $2000 planes do you? PFG: Meh. ME: Well you could join our club and enjoy frequency control and the shared knowledge of 100 fellow pilots. PFG: How much? ME: Our club is only $20 a year, but of course you would have to become an AMA member for $60 a year. PFG: No thanks <walks away>
We don't fly at our club field much anymore. On 11/2/05, rdwoebke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can either look at this as a problem, or an opportunity. Lee, I > don't know if you meant it this way, but your post comes across > pretty negative towards park flyers. > > Instead of looking at these models and these flyers as a problem, why > not look at them as an opportunity? I fly quite a bit at local > parks, having never lived in a city with a dedicated soaring club > (except while I was at Purdue). Every time I meet another person at > a park with an airplane (be it $30.00 "on off" model, a throttle and > rudder "aerobird" model, or a guy flying a "3D" style ship), I always > introduce myself and get their email address. I always ask them what > channel they are on (and more often than not, they do not know) and > explain that I would not want to be on the same channel as them and > it cause their model to fly improperly. > > See, this is what I don't understand about people who think "they > other guy" is going to cause a frequency problem for them. It goes > both ways. A modeler with a parkflyer does not want his pride and > joy to be damaged as much as we don't want our super moldie to be > damaged. That 2K we have in a moldie very well could be the economic > equivalent of what a college student has in his 3D fomie. > > OK, back onto constructive things. Unfortunately, I moved away from > Indy, but I had built up a network of about 25 pilot's emails > addresses. I was sending out an email about once a week to let folks > know when I and others would be out at the field and if I would bring > my high start along. Some folks used this group to start indoor > electric flying, and a few of the pilots actually started flying > gliders. One of the new pilots I tried to help out actually attended > the Nats for the first time this year. > > So instead of looking at park flyers as a problem, why don't we > invite them into the fold? I flew both my LSF 4 1 hour flights at > this park along side park flyers flying GWS planes and 3D planes. > Our hobby can and does coexist! It just takes a bit of working > together. A positive attitude can and does go along way. Treating > parkflyer pilots like an equal (regardless of the type or cost of > their model) will go a long way towards building mutual respect. > > Off soap box…. > > Ryan > > > > > 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 >
