How many of you get support from you parents?

[3D_Kid]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Eury
	Stop whining kid, you sound like a little girl. Some people didn't have ANY RC planes when they were growing up because they had to use their money for other things like insurance and a car to get to work and school, and prior to being 16, I wasn't allowed to work. Beyond that, a lot of people have to save for an education, and can't afford to throw their money away on toy planes. Your life isn't that bad, you are on here, and you have something to fly, there's plenty of us (myself included) who were unable to get into this hobby AT ALL until their late 20s due to finances, and to hear an ungrateful little 17 year old on here complaining "because he can only afford a 40 size and mommy won't get him something bigger" is an insult. Grow up.

i wasn't whining, nor was ungrateful, 5 year old kids with 35% planes asking for more is ungrateful, and these are not toy planes, it even says so in the manuals.

[Eury]

	Quote:
	i wasn't whining, nor was ungrateful, 5 year old kids with 35% planes asking for more is ungrateful, and these are not toy planes, it even says so in the manuals.

So it's OK to be ungrateful and complain and ask for bigger stuff for free if you are 12 years older? Please.

Just because some company covers itself by putting a disclaimer in a manual doesn't mean something isn't a toy. They serve no useful purpose beyond blowing off steam and entertaining us. My full scale plane isn't a toy, it's used for business, these things are toys, and you are complaining because other people have cooler toys than you.

[3D_Kid]

No hard feelings though man, none intended , just stating from what I constantly heard from Tristan Kline.

[youngflyer]

ok im in agreeance with eury......i know who people who get whatever they want. i on the other hand have to work for it and that makes me apreciate my stuff even more. wait your turn until you can get one.....idea how about a 30% instead of 33%. anyway quit your wining and work more and save more. if other people are more fortunate, its because there parents struggled to be the best they can to give their child what they didnt have. im not fortunate to have rich parents either but im not bitching because i see people like that and im jelous. i go and i work harder and anyone else so i can afford it! i worked 35 hours a week (i was 15) last summer between being a host/foodrunner at a restaurant and mowing lawns and now, i have the plane i wanted!

[JeeUm]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Flatlandman
	[ please clarify what you are doing here. Are you trying to make fun of me or the child with dyslexia? FYI he only misspelled one word in the original post. Thats why i suggested Word since that program doesn't just check spelling it also helps with grammar. If your going at me,I will retort and you wont like what I have to say. ps; this proves the crew here at the flying giants are hypocrites! It took less than 1 hour for them to delete my post that wasn't making fun of any one yet this pos post has been left here all day thats begging for me to get nasty with a response.

Hypocrites? Do you think we read every single post on this site? We've specifically asked our users in the past to report bad posts to us that we miss. If you had done that and given us a chance to take care of it instead of attacking us, you probably wouldn't have gotten so upset.

[Flatlandman]

I can see how my reply could be to quik but the ones i have been gigged on were within an hour most times. In the future i will try to hold off longer

[JeeUm]

Like I said, if we catch something then it's gone. If we don't, then we rely on the users to let us know. I haven't read this thread because it has nothing to do with me. As soon as I did and saw that reply I killed it.

[super_nova]

Just stumbled onto these forums and signed up. I'm a member of rcgroups, but this one looks like a cool forum too. Anyways, just thought I'd chime in with my 2 cents worth.

My dad has always been super supportive. He's a pilot himself (like the real planes) and has been flying rc on and off since he was in college. So he was happy to help me get into rc. I didn't actually start to get interested till about grade 10 (age ~17 I guess) and everday I kick myself for not starting earlier I could have started as early as I wanted and he would have taught me. But what can you do...I was too into sports, computers, and girls at that age I guess! Anyways despite all his support, my parents never made alot of money, so buying new rc stuff was not a priority. So we flew what we had. More recently I have been doing more of the buying.

I'm new to the 3D scene and have only flown .40 sized planes and park flyers. Like the original poster of this thread, I am amazed everytime I see/read about a 15 year old and his gassers. One day I hope I'll have the skill to fly one of those (because I know its only a matter of time before I have the money ). But for now, till I finish University and start working and making money, I'll be sticking to my small stuff.

[3D_Kid]

Welcome to the Giants super_nova!

[p sme]

My parents don't pay for my stuff but I cant complain. They send me to a private school and they help me keep my priorities straight. I teach tennis in the summer and umpire little league baseball games to pay for it-that gives me enough to pay for glow planes and hopefully this summer a 50cc. Even though they dont let me fly as much as I want to, its only because they want to make sure I don't end up holding myself back/slacking off by spending to much time on planes. Overall, when you think about it were all really lucky...in alot of countries, kids would do anything for a piece of bread. Besides, who cares if a 13 year old kid has a 35%...I can have just as much fun flying a .40 sized fun fly...its all about attitude Happy flying

[snapplane]

well said p sme

[Yak 54]

Well my perents support me for taking up the hobby the dont what so ever help me at all with the money part but they'll take me to the flying field most the times I ask but they like the fact that I'm in the hobby because my gpa was inlove with RC

[jesperskræm]

Hello from denmark

First at all i get no support from my parents...

i read in the first part of this topic, that many teens fly's 50cc aircraft...
and i began thinking of one thing...

what are the prices in the u.s. compared to DK
maby some link's to some U.S R/C shops ???

See Ya

[Temptation]

	Quote: Originally Posted by bodywerks
	I am almost 32 years old, have my own house and my own planes, but live 1300 miles away from my dad.

Is that 1300 verticle miles? Sorry couldn't resist.

Mike Darr

[Temptation]

	Quote: Originally Posted by 3D_Kid
	oh well, maybe when there 40 years old, they'll still suck up to their mommy and daddy for this and that, and won't appreciate anything they get. I'll I want is one stinkin 33% maybe, no Comp-arfs, carden, just a simple hangar 9 or great planes. It seems like everything is so overpriced in this hobby. You have to "know" some people in the hobby to get anywhere. No offense.

You need to appreciate what you have right now. When I was your age I was picking other guys crashed planes out of the garbage can at the field, then taking them home fix, and fly. I have a 14 month old son right now and if he takes a liking to r/c then he will have all of the cool stuff too. He will earn it though. Think of it this way, there are kids out there that wish they could have what you do. Everybody always wants what they don't have. Your 17, it will come in due time. Work, and save your money. Things don't happen overnight. It takes hard work and determination. It just amazes me, how much kids today want. This technology didn't even exist when I was your age. Fly what you have and just have fun.

Mike Darr