In The Beginning …
A Beginner's Diary
Visiting The Club My First Flight Buying Building Final Checks Running In Lessons Disasters! Landings The Bronze The Future?
February 2000. Early retirement had loomed for some time [yippee!]. The children are grown-up and the wife is eager to ensure I'm not going to spend the remaining years watching daytime television and drinking myself into an early grave. Building and flying model aircraft had been an early teenage hobby and a 'must get back to sometime' category - but that was a long time ago, so how to go about it now?
There was no local model shop in which to make enquiries, and the magazines were no good. Join a club, they said - but where and how?
Solution - when in doubt, get the internet search engine going! In fact, this turned out to be the answer. A number of clubs were situated within driving distance in central Scotland. However, not all gave the impression [at that time - but it has changed, now] that raw beginners were welcome and some, perhaps understandably, seemed to know more about flying than they did about designing websites. Dundee Model Aircraft Club stood out right away. Not only did their website have details of what, where, who, why, etc. it also had loads of information and training data useful to beginners plus some fairly earthy comments about those members who already flew under its 'wing'.
Looks good - let's give it a whirl.
A Beginner's Diary
Visiting The Club My First Flight Buying Building Final Checks Running In Lessons Disasters! Landings The Bronze The Future?