Can't quit.....

Here here! :drink:

If it wasn't for electrics, I wouldn't have gotten back into the hobby. Then I found out what was happening with 3D and it's all over, baby.

My thinking is thus. I don't have a whole lot of time. There are 4 parks within 5 minutes of my house where I can fly electrics, and even when it's on the breezy side, one park is in a bowl, with plenty of large trees around for a wind block. I've flown there with an Aerobird with safe wind coverage to 150' when the winds were gusting to 20 mph.

Second thing is, I really have zero tolerance for political BS that goes with joining a club. I know there's 3 clubs with very nice fields within 30-45 minutes from my house, but I just don't want to deal with anyone saying I can't fly the way I want to fly.

The way I see it, I can leave my place and burn through a pack before I could even get to a club field, not even factoring in waiting for a pin, then putting up with a bunch of bs and club politics.

Also cuts down on the witnesses when you dumb-thumb and auger it in

Guess I'm just anti-social at heart, unless I get to hang with some bros.

Only downside I'm having is getting past thinking of electrics as toys, and not real planes. And after growing up smelling glow fumes, there's a rush I still get from glow exhaust.

J

I was talking to an owner of a hobby shop. Remember years ago.... Hardly any ARF's. And if you bought one, most likely it was a POS. There were MORE kits than ARF's. Probally like 100 kits to an ARF-in-a-box.

now in a hobby shop? how things have changed. This one hobby shops now sells ARFS, 10 to 1, against kits. The quality is better too.

and so it will be with electrics. As all of you have said. Just grab it and go. Clubs will have a hard time maintaining their memberships. Just too easy to fly at a local big yard or field, rather than "Load up and go fly at the club field", an all day task (like a chore sometimes).

Speaking personally, my big gas 8 foot profile only flew 3 or 4 times this year. I have one BIG glow that only flew once this year. I'll still have Glo. That damn Burrito of mine has completely changed things. I'll still have one gasser. Gonna get rid of all my circle-flying gas/glow shit, and go with profiles. But the fact is, like many of you, I flew more with my little ol electric than anyting else I have.

However you all may say what you want about clubs and their fields. Would you be here NOW, if it wasn't for a club somewhere?

Would you be here NOW in the Profile Brotherhood, if it wasn't for a club somewhere? The fact that a club had a "bad apple" that got to ya, isn't really important. Sure some of you don't need the "social" aspect of it. But those of us, who took the time to go to Nashville, definitely went for the "social" aspect of it, otherwise why did we go? Don't get me wrong, there must have been 20 or 30 electrics there, myself included. (as well as over 100 glow's)

I think the "foamy" revolution is great. The technology in motors and batteries in just the last couple of years..... is unbelieveable. The way it helps us all to learn to be "fearless" with aerobatics is great.

anyways........ here's my point. Its going to increase the "isolation" factor. You won't (or might not) see a Pro-Bro doing his thing. A pilot like me might never have gotten involved, if I hadn't run into a Pro-Bro. (In this example, its Mike Bogh) If it wasn't for him, I'd never heard of you guys. (and HE hardly ever comes in here and post.). I'd never have gotten involved, never have gone to Nash...........

Still don't get the point??? OK, here it is. Like clubs, we are now a dying breed. If we are not "out there" spreading the word..... our numbers will get smaller over time. Just the internet ain't gonna do it. Magazines?? I don't think so. Some of you laugh at the so-called 3D writeups.

Now go ahead and tell me I'm fulla shit.

I don't think you're full of shit. I went to a fly in Saturday, mostly circle flyers, and flew electrics. I invited a guy that lived farther away from the fly in than me to come, he had an Ultimate foamy that he was not to pleased with (I hooked up with him in a thread by Mike Bogh on RCGroups), I told him I'd show him what foam could do.

Well, he was amazed at the difference between a H9 Ultimate and a ChuckFlyer, but he was also amazed at my balsa electric planes. He came away with a lot better understanding about electrics, realized it wasn't something he was doing wrong.

Me and OverSpray were the only Bros there, both sportin' colors. We got bitched at for flying foamys behind the flightline (we went to the helicopter area so we wouldn't infringe on the circle flyers..)

I like the convienience of taking a foamy to the school yard right quick, but I also like to go and hang out with friends. I gave my Stano painted ChuckFlyer to an old friend at the field, he has some acerage and wanted a plane to fly in the short times we get around here between wind storms.

So being an electric flyer doesn't make you anti-social, or a sociopath.