What are we doing here? Some pilots have asked why ScaleHeliPilot is here when...

What are we doing here? Some pilots have asked why ScaleHeliPilot is here when we can all use Facebook. Here is why:

- Facebook is built for everyone and anyone. It does not have tools, categories or other capabilities that are specific to our hobby.

- Content posted on Facebook is here today and gone tomorrow. FB was not built to catalog and preserve information. On ScaleHeliPilot, information is all cataloged by topic and product so current and future pilots can easily find specific information when they need it.

- Anyone and their cousin can start a group on Facebook. Many groups overlap which means users often see the same post over and over simply because the poster shared it to multiple redundant groups. Our corner of the hobby is so small that it doesn't make sense to organize ourselves into overlapping groups. ScaleHeliPilot is the group. Everything else gets organized by content type, product type, information type and other attributes that actually matter.

- ScaleHeliPilot has tools that FB does not have like "Who's Flying Where," a buy/sell area that is organized by scale heli-specific categories, a chaptered build story post format, and coming in 2023, a "Master Course" area that features instructional videos by experts in our hobby.

- Our hobby is small so one of our missions is to support the vendors who provide product for the hobby. Facebook makes it hard (and expensive) for vendors to communicate with us about new products and other promotions. If we are all gathered in one space, that job becomes easier for them and we don't miss any news!

Please tell your friends about the site and please contribute your content as well, knowing that it will be preserved and discoverable for years and years to come.