16-11-2015, 10:52 PM
Hello Mike, and welcome to our forum!
Our club is very friendly and open - new members and their families are most definitely welcome, and all of us are very willing to help and guide newcomers
Weather permitting, there is always someone at the field on weekends from say 9am to at least 1 or 2pm, and on good days even longer. Congestion is not a problem (we are a relatively small club), and it's all very relaxed and informal. A prospective member can come and fly up to four times without joining, for free. An instructor will assess their ability to fly solo (sounds formal but it's not!), or if necessary take them up on a buddy box (trainer link between two transmitters), to help the student get past the steepest portion of the learning curve.
Given how wet it has been, our field is a little soggy right now, but hopefully the hot weather this coming week will dry things out. Space-wise, it would be fair to say that our flying area is among the smaller, but it is certainly adequate for a Radian. In fact, gliders tend to be rather popular, and most days there will be at least one similar glider in the 2m wingspan class. We also fly warbirds, trainers, jets, 3D planes, multirotors, helicopters... as long as it is electric and not abnormally loud (your Radian will be perfectly fine), it will almost certainly be OK at our club.
Hope to see you and your family at our field one of these weekends!
All the best,
Andre ("disoriented")
Our club is very friendly and open - new members and their families are most definitely welcome, and all of us are very willing to help and guide newcomers
Weather permitting, there is always someone at the field on weekends from say 9am to at least 1 or 2pm, and on good days even longer. Congestion is not a problem (we are a relatively small club), and it's all very relaxed and informal. A prospective member can come and fly up to four times without joining, for free. An instructor will assess their ability to fly solo (sounds formal but it's not!), or if necessary take them up on a buddy box (trainer link between two transmitters), to help the student get past the steepest portion of the learning curve.
Given how wet it has been, our field is a little soggy right now, but hopefully the hot weather this coming week will dry things out. Space-wise, it would be fair to say that our flying area is among the smaller, but it is certainly adequate for a Radian. In fact, gliders tend to be rather popular, and most days there will be at least one similar glider in the 2m wingspan class. We also fly warbirds, trainers, jets, 3D planes, multirotors, helicopters... as long as it is electric and not abnormally loud (your Radian will be perfectly fine), it will almost certainly be OK at our club.
Hope to see you and your family at our field one of these weekends!
All the best,
Andre ("disoriented")