Some new flyers at our field

[Robert W]

I took my kids to the flying field Saturday and they had fun. This was the first outing for my daughter and she did not do to bad. My son can fly out the tank on the baby bee without crashing most of the time. The plane is the Brodak trainer with an old baby bee motor. I moved to this for training, because I was having a hard time letting go of the controls with the flightstreak I built them. It is much easier to sit back and let them crash the 1/2A trainer on there own and when it does break we take it home and glue it back together. Now that Max has crashed a few time, he flies much better.

I am new to posting photos here so if they do not attach, please forgive.

Regards
Robert

[Paul Taylor]

Way to go Robert !!!!

It will not be long and he will be flying circles around you.

Paul 

[Dennis Adamisin]

I'd say the grin on your daughter's face pretty well says it all.   Way to go Dad! 

[john e. holliday]

Great photos of the new flyers.  Remember to take a bottle of CA with you and on the solid models you don't have to go home to repair them.  Keep them flying,  DOC Holliday

[Keith Spriggs]

I have some advice for the instructor:

Savor every moment that you spend doing things with your children. It is a moment in your life that all of you will always remember. I am 70 years old and my children and I still reminisce about the things we did together.

[Howard Rush]

You aren't much of an American.  Why aren't those kids playing soccer like they're supposed to?  If we want somebody to fly a model airplane, we'll hire a Chinese kid to do it. 

Howard Rush
(bummed because the last free flight field in the county just got taken over by soccer Nazis)

[Robert W]

Thanks for the kind words. We are having fun and I am trying hard to keep it that way. I do take a mini DVD player to keep them occupied while I get in a flight or two.

One of the hardest things was teaching my son to fly level. I have been taking him to the flying field off and on since he was 2 and he has been watching me do the pattern all that time. When he final got on the handle he wanted to do loops, anything but level. Now that we have moved to the 1/2A's and he has crashed a couple of times, his control and focus have improved. I have enough 1/2A trainers to keep them in the air with out having to do major rebuilds at the field.

To introduce them to building I let them help build their trainers. The construction is easier and they get to fly what they have built. Using sandpaper is one of the hardest things to learn, I am still learning myself.

[Steve Scott]

I made the mistake of teaching my son to fly CL at an early age.  I can remember him literally jumping in the air after he completed his first wingover.  He did his first inside loop at a large public demo in not that great of weather conditions.  I'd take him with me to the field clean up sessions where he'd comment, "Dad, I kinda like doing this with you."

Now he's moved out of the junior category (age 16) and can clean my clock at will in the Beginner class.  He's always fiddlin' with his CL and RC models and I haven't been able to find a single tool where I had left it for the past several years.

A couple of years from now and he'll be done with high school and likely out on his own.  I'll have a tidy house to marvel at with everything exactly where I had put it.  It's gonna be lonely.

Cherish the dad time you have now. 

[john e. holliday]

So true Steve.  DOC Holliday

[Chucky]

Hey Robert!

Good to see Sophia getting in on the action too!  She was obviously having a good time.  Wasn't able to make it to the field Saturday but got a few flights in Monday morning.  Still tinkering with the Cardinal's flight trim.  Hopefully the south-west winds we had for so long will stay away so I can get some more CL time in this weekend.

Chuck

[rustler]

Howard Rush
(bummed because the last free flight field in the county just got taken over by soccer Nazis)
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Been there done that. Milton Keynes Modellers had the best grass flying field in the country. Enough space for more circles than we need, we could even accommodate the vintage flyers who insisted on using vintage style 100ft. lines! Also we had brick built toilet and admin facilities and an Irish club adjacent where their bar served snacks, drinks etc. Then a London soccer club, Wimbledon, got into financial troubles, nearly went under, then got the brilliant idea of moving to Milton Keynes. Some idiot rescued them, they bought our field, and erected a new stadium, shopping centre, etc. The only appropriate words were "the rape of the countryside".
Bu all was not lost, the local council had another field, not so large, (no more 100ft. lines), but similar facilities, (no Irish club). It was primarily used for cricket, but we booked two Sundays a year for our club comps. Then the cricket swines got unbelievably dog-in-the-manger, very territorial, and offered the council so much money for the exclusive all-year round use of the facilities that we could not compete, and we were excluded.
We now have a 3rd. field, but it's not in the same class as the previous two. No facilities and not so many circles.