You don't need a glider, a membership, or any idea what F5J stands for. You need a Saturday.
Come fly with us
What a first visit looks like
Check the calendar, drive out, and park with the other cars. Somebody will come say hello well before you've worked out where to stand. Watch a round or two, ask whatever you want between launches, and if the day is going well you'll probably end up holding a transmitter. There's nothing to sign and nothing to pay — spectators are always free.
The one thing worth doing beforehand is joining the flying-notices list, because North Texas weather cancels more Saturdays than anything else.
When you want to fly for real
Get an AMA card. Academy of Model Aeronautics membership is required before you fly a contest or touch club equipment. It's the liability coverage that keeps us on these fields, so there's genuinely no way around it.
Pay the $20. That's the whole year. It goes into launch gear, the winch trailers, and keeping the fields in good standing.
Ask for On-Wing. We'll assign you a pilot — not a class, a person, who meets you at the field and stays on your wing until you don't need them. It's the club's main job, honestly. Nothing keeps a hobby alive except new people in it.
You don't need a $2,500 airplane
Most of our fleet started life as something else. If you've got an old thermal ship in the rafters, a folding prop, a modest motor, a small battery and an altitude limiter will convert it, and that's how a good share of the pits got here. Starting from nothing, a foam motor-glider will fly you through a whole season for the price of a decent radio.
Bring what you have, as long as it's electric and safe. We'll tell you honestly whether it'll score and what to fix first.
Who ends up here
Members range from one year in RC to fifty. Power pilots who got curious about quiet. Old winch hands whose ships have been in the shop since 2022. People who have never flown anything at all. All of it works, and the fifty-year pilots are usually the ones handing over the transmitter.