You’ll have to keep us informed. My son and I tried RC planes around 2002 when there was a club with a airstrip by the Roadking Restaurant, as we were beginners a buddy pack was used and the experienced flyer turned over control to my son but it turned out the controls stopped working and no one had control as we watched it piledrive into the ground burying the engine.
I have an ultralight airplane that I've been building on and when I first started on it I noticed the landing gear suspension was nothing more than bungee cord wrapped around the moving components. I joked about that to an experienced pilot saying " you've got to be kidding me, could it be any more Mickey mouse?" He said " it worked, it was lightweight and was reliable" I guess those are pretty important aspects and I've learned that mickey mouse method has been in use on other planes for years.I had to chuckle. High tech manufacturing & still old school rubber bands.
I’d like to fly again but there’s no where to fly where I live.
The local club has a 50 person limit and the wait list is near as long.
That's very cool. How big/small is it?