Hai-Lee
Old and Bold RC PILOT
The title of mentor whilst a recognition means little. Most who are now mentors freely spend their own time providing help and answers to those in trouble or searching for answers! Often this can mean actually doing the search or research that others are unable to, unwilling to, or are seriously off target.
Whilst this is something which is part of the role or responsibility as is a form of loyalty to the FT designs and the store products it can at times be extremely difficult to provide the information for users when FT releases a new product or design.
I live in a place where buying from the FT store can inflict a freight penalty in excess of the original purchase price. I used to try and build each and every FT offering so that I could find any build or performance problems and the reasons/fixes. This was mainly because the FT audience does not always have access to the same FB or even electrics that the store offers for sale.
Anyway enough preamble!
The Question!
Could the FT admin staff etc consider the early release of plans to Mentors through PM for those who wish to participate in the new design. This of course would require the implementation and enforcement of a NDA or similar. The same could also be for the Beta designs and speed up the entire design to product procedure or process.
If the Mentors were experienced in building and flying new designs then the mentors would be in a far better position to assist those who buy the latest product offering from the release date going forward.
As for my own situation yes I do design and build FB planes for others BUT strictly avoid any and all FT designs unless helping someone who has downloaded their own plans and are trying to build their own version or versions.
Thank you for your time on this!
have fun!
Whilst this is something which is part of the role or responsibility as is a form of loyalty to the FT designs and the store products it can at times be extremely difficult to provide the information for users when FT releases a new product or design.
I live in a place where buying from the FT store can inflict a freight penalty in excess of the original purchase price. I used to try and build each and every FT offering so that I could find any build or performance problems and the reasons/fixes. This was mainly because the FT audience does not always have access to the same FB or even electrics that the store offers for sale.
Anyway enough preamble!
The Question!
Could the FT admin staff etc consider the early release of plans to Mentors through PM for those who wish to participate in the new design. This of course would require the implementation and enforcement of a NDA or similar. The same could also be for the Beta designs and speed up the entire design to product procedure or process.
If the Mentors were experienced in building and flying new designs then the mentors would be in a far better position to assist those who buy the latest product offering from the release date going forward.
As for my own situation yes I do design and build FB planes for others BUT strictly avoid any and all FT designs unless helping someone who has downloaded their own plans and are trying to build their own version or versions.
Thank you for your time on this!
have fun!