I’ve been personally delivering model planes to Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and surrounding areas for free. For the outside-Ottawa cities I’ve been coordinating deliveries with other trips and workshops. This is helpful for promoting model aviation, science, making things and is also really fun.
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of requests for people to pick-up model planes in the Ottawa area and I’m starting to like that because of efficiency (hey come to me instead of me going to them).
I’m considering doing local pick-up only and then saving my free deliveries for those who want to do some actual flying (or some other arrangement). I think it makes more sense. Especially lately as I’ve started to do more model airplane activities just for fun.
In fact the more I think of it, the more I like the idea of having my regular model plane meetups for the Squirrel and having people come by for pick-up. If I have one about once per week, that should make life easy. Then I’ve got public relations, pick-ups and some social all rolled into one. Of course the people doing a pick-up may elect not to join the social. 🙂
I want to do more model planes and less logistics. Thoughts?
