5 years, 10K members and one admin who is beginning to show his age

[VC]

Want me to tell Idi?

[rohitgupta322]

Looks like the fuselage fever is infecting every thread.

Really happy to have been a member of this forum since 2010! Thank You Anwar Sir! 

[KALYANPRODHAN]

Really happy to be a part of this Family. For hectic load of job (three charge free as additional with one charge), can check only when reported and in night. Still this is become some living energy to me. An wonderful administration to lead the forum by the members of open minded.

In my word, even getting report mail of spam posting, withen 1 minute, opened and the post gone before I delete. So, fast acting admin as well as moderators.

And beyond all superheros (trio) , the members are really peaceful and helpful as the forum is now and neither admin nor moderator would maintain properly if the members are of some other type. So, on behalf of moderation team, I thanks the general members first, to reduce our work by pointing at proper time. And the LHSs giving constant support for popularizing this hobby to common people without which we cannot build this platform.

[v2 eagle]

Well,

Everthing has already been said, i would like to say im happy to be a part of this forum where i started as a newbie with no idea how to bind a TX and now i dared to have 2 scratch build planes in just less than a year. all because of this forum, thanks anwar, gusty for being knowledge builders, and thanks a lot for sanjay sir who inspired me and encouraged me in every other build.
Also i would like to thanks all the LHS i have ever deal with as without them it would be impossible and i would still be watching just videos.

special thanks to quadkopters satyagupta for providing this service at much competitive price than anywhere in india at best quality. Thanks a lot everyone and bcoz of you all we have now three fellow rc modellers in our gang(moorthy, johnny, and me) and we feel more of a community now.

Ashok.P
(Scratch built 3 channel glider buildlog coming soon!!!!!!)

[rcrcnitesh]

Awesome Rcindia. Have been enjoying in this forum getting scoldings, learning new things. This forum has been lucky for me.
What are the prizes for the competition.
And any other rules.
Also if i scratchbuild a plane but it hasnt flew for some reason will it be counted in the sweepstakes

[rcpilotacro]

What are the prices for the competition.

25,000 entry fee. get it from father quickly

[topalle]

   

with that money we can buy lots of fuselages...

[essaargee]

@rcpilotacro :  +1. Does it make a difference if those "Gupth Char" people are seen openly here in the Forum ?

@VC  : The court Jester is the most powerful guy of them all - even the Queen NOT excluded.
If need be, a lesson or two to those who need it - knowingly or u :)nknowingly from him....Jai Raja Beerbal ji ki (not that 'Beer'bal, you note - no misunderstandings, what with the 'cockpits and fuselages' flying free and thick all over here...

Anwar bhai, I too have noticed the trend all over in many fora and it is more so here with us because, other things being equal, the 'made-easily n used-easily' is incentive enough for the switch over. In fact I myself am in to the phase of acquiring one - note, it is an 'addition' and not a substitution or switch-over. For those who wanted a change, Helis are not a logical change-over; at least not for me. The complexity and cost apart, some how it was not my cup of tea. In other world fora, the switch over is to more complex and costly aspects of their present interest. May be, ease of availability and affordability (at least for them over there) is a factor. Have go with the inevitable .

[sanjayrai55]

Back to serious stuff

I have started my (first  ) build for the sweepstakes, and will be posting as usual, with a link to the post. Where do I post the link? Here, or will there be a new thread to do so?

[rcpilotacro]

new thread !! new thread !!!

[anwar]

Please start a new build thread, that makes it easy to refer to, identify, and grade  (like who is grading who! )

[asinghatiya]

Sanjay Sir..... Akhbaar ke photu thoda zoom karo!!! I doubt ye pichle saal wali kit hai  

Naxal Attack is not the proof of date that its the same happened yesterday 

[anwar]

... and grade   (like who is grading who! )

Something like clueless celebrities appearing as judges on reality shows

[ayub]

Great... congrats to admin for 5 years with 10k members.

[ayub]

For competition build & win I have some suggestions:
(i) I think the name of build thread should start with a specific name: like Build & Win or  B&W.....
(ii) Winner should be one, yes you can give same prize to the runner up.
(iii) A panel of judges should make a decision for winners, because lucky draw decrease the value of competition, one who have 1x chance could be the winner while other can lose with 10x chance.
You can judged on:
Build quality and details
Techniques used
Level of step by step detail shared in the build thread
Decoration
Flight Quality
Your analysis of flight performance & flight video
Uniqueness of model
Voting etc...

[Swapnil]

Anwar sir, how about the judges consider the results of a voting system in addition to their own selection criteria? Here's how the voting system would work:

1) Each participating member can cast two votes for two separate participants. So, even if each participant votes once for them-self, the other vote would be unbiased.

2) Each non-participating member with more than 1000 posts can cast two votes. Others are not allowed to vote.

3) The voting would be visible to everyone. In a thread, each voter would add one post with the names of the two people they have chosen. The results of the voting would be visible in the 1st post.

[anwar]

Both the above arguments assume that this is a forum consisting of only airplane builders. We need to be inclusive of every type of modeling, and we will influence the chances for people who put in the effort. But every type of modeler should have at least have a shot at winning.

Some one who builds a car from a kit, or someone who builds a quad should both have some percentage chance of winning.

If we go with the above suggestions, such groups will be gravely disadvantaged.

What I can try is to have one voting based winner, and one winner whose fate is decided by a higher power, or chance, as you perceive it.

After all Idi Amin loved all his subjects equally

[rcpilotacro]

After all Idi Amin loved all his subjects equally

[Swapnil]

Both the above arguments assume that this is a forum consisting of only airplane builders....

What I can try is to have one voting based winner, and one winner whose fate is decided by a higher power, or chance, as you perceive it.

The voting system suggested by me covers all kinds of RC crafts. In fact, my youngest cousin is planning to submit a unique 'hovercraft' design.

Also, I meant it to be considered as a secondary system to the higher power (like 70 % judges ruling and 30% voting results).

Voting would let everyone see the people's favorite!       

[Ricky]

Thank you Anwar for starting this forum. Its because of this forum and people ( Read Mentors) I met here that I am flying and enjoying every moment of it.

I made friends and learned from each one of them, all thanks to you. Also my heart felt thanks to my Guru's @ SanjayRai, @ Girish, @ Arvind....Thanks Guys....

[rcrcnitesh]

no one answeted my question

[rcpilotacro]

Also if i scratchbuild a plane but it hasnt flew for some reason will it be counted in the sweepstakes

no! it has to take off & fly around atleast, landing is optional. AFAIK

[SunLikeStar]

But soon I realized that knowledge in this hobby has sort of saturated...And the trend is truly reflected as "activity" on the forum. The traditional builds and worrying about airfoil shapes and sizes of tail stabilizer versus wing span etc etc are discussed a lot less. Not that people are not doing and enjoying that, but there is a trend towards instant gratification, or life may have just gotten too hectic overall !

Atleast in our circle/field  people are still building and experimenting. We still have hours long discussion on airfoils and wingtips. The knowledge is no where near saturated. Now we don't want something which is just flight worthy; we are now more interested in performance and doing something which we have not done before. But what has changed is that people have stopped reporting their activities on the forum. Most discussions have moved to facebook pages or local whatsapp groups. I honestly feel that we need to get people to participate here just for the fact that this is the mother group and also for the visibility this hobby deserves. But I cant point figures as I am also in the 'absconding from the forum' lot.

Anyways, this event might just be the "bump" this community needs. I'm trying to get the word around and you would definitely see more participation from Baner, Pune crowd.

[sanjayrai55]

Since the referred post has been moved, I expunge my remark

[K K Iyer]

Sir,
Yeh thoda samajh may nahin aaya