I'm fairly new to this addictive hobby. Only about a year in now.

I originally got interested in it in the mid 90's as I was going through my first year of college. I failed miserably at both... I built a Citabria kit as my very very first RC airplane, decked it out with some good kit from Futaba (good at the time...), and managed (with no sims or instructors, or anything useful) to figure out how to counteract engine torque on take off, actually get it off the ground (the easy part), flew about 4 really sketchy patterns, before driving it into the ground like a fence post. That about ended it for me at the time.

Then I got super productive with other life things (making a real go at college, family, etc.) and lost sight of the hobby.

Fast forward 17 years...

I started dabbling in electronics, primarily Arduino, because that interested me at the time. That gateway drug led me to autonomous flight control systems, which led me to "drones" (yes I built and flew a 450-size qudcopter -- successfuly), which led me fully back to the hobby.

So here I am now, a year later. I have built many of the FliteTest foamies, some from their kits, some from scratch. I just scratch built an airframe from DTFB. Just need to finish assembly and maiden. And I want to eventually get back into balsa building and most of all scratch building...

I'm back, and now that I have some maturity under my belt, along with a wife who is a total enabler, I'm here to stay.

Special shout out to the CrashCast crew for setting the hook even deeper (CrashHancock, LMopar69, IFLYOS, CatheadBiscuit, HatefulGravey)