> One thing to do is to talk to your LHS....... Our local stores are not bad but they're also not good. They need the sales.
The problem's not the toys. I don't think we should run down people who try to fly them either. Everyone starts out clueless, often with a 49MHz PoS. After all, that's how I got into this hobby. In fact I was nearly part of the problem. I've still got the plane and the radio -- foam electric, three channel AM set that runs on 42. Purchased it in 1994 from a toyshop (not a hobby store) for my daughter who wanted a "remote control plane" for her birthday. I had absolutely no idea that it could interfere with someone a mile or more away. Fortunately for everyone it didn't work very well -- at least we couldn't fly it further than a hundred yards without crashing it. We got lucky, though. I was a bit wary of model aircraft so I thought I'd assemble a Gentle Lady kit someone had given me years before to see how to repair the things. So after crashing the electric (*again*) we thought "what the heck" and tossed the GL, expecting it to also fall in a heap. It didn't. So we started flying it. On 44 this time, still without a clue. Fortunately the GL needs space to fly in and after a couple of weeks we found where everyone flew gliders. We were helped by someone who showed us how to trim it, how to fly it and taught us the lore.........the rest, as they say, is history. A little bit of help goes a long, long, way. My daugher may have moved onto bigger and better (and much more expensive) things (full size) but I'm still flying those sailplanes. Martin Usher 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.
