Andries Bisdee

Yup I'm in.

Yes I would like to win a plastic airplane..........

Count me in

Me too! I'm in.

Thanks Andy, I will look into the Addiction. Who sells it? I should emphasise I now live in England again, my eye condition was too rare for Oz: only one other person in the state (WA) had it!... Doesn't make for expertise and as an ex GP myself I have a well developed Bull***t detector! I hope your son's eyes get sorted, you don't notice what you aren't seeing until it's fixed when the wow factor is just amazing.  All the best Andries.

Good forum so far! I started i9n 1980 . Back in those days ARTF as non existent and you had to build it from scratch. I followed the Gospel according to St David (Boddington) and built his BAT  Basic Aircraft Trainer. It had the advantage of having a flat bottomed wing for starters , which could be replaced by a low dihedral symmetrical section one for aileron work. The best bit was the Thetford and Bury St edmunds club who flew at RAF Honington. superb runways and the occasional Tornado on reheat to liven up proceedings! I progressed to low wingers and even scale like Bipes such as the DB Scout and the Flair Nieuport like sesquiplane. But , Living Australia by now, I lost most of my sight for some years and haven't flown since 1994 . I now want to start again as I can see again if only with one eye. I have an Astro Hog in the roof  but don't want to go there yet, as though it was a beautiful flyer on an OS FS 61 it will all need re fettling to be sure not to fail. Do servos seize up after all that time? So I bought a sim last weekend from Dave King at A! Models in Colchester and have been practising....not as easy as I remember but of course you can't glance around or see the ground too well till its too late! So Now it back to trainers. Would an ARTF electric be the way to go? Clean and relatively quick to get started with. What do any of my fellow returning old codgers think?  I wish we'd ahd the internet in the 70's and 80's would have made life much more interesting. All the best Andries

Yes please.  the Astro hog is getting old.

Looks like a good way to rejoin the modelling scene after 14 years out... Now where's that simulator?