ORIGINAL: DenverJayhawk
Has anyone here sold off all their glow models and equipment and moved to electrics? I'm considering doing this. I love the smell and flight times with glow, but my recent experience with electrics and the minimal equipment needed to haul to the field and not to mention the lack of cleanup afterwards has me strongly thinking about selling all of my glow equipment and moving to electrics. My electric ExtremeFlight 3D model has the power to weight ratio of a bottle rocket. Even my massively overpowered Big Stik can't keep up with it. Also, ever day I'm discovering the magic of profile foamies that can be flown at the local park next to my home.
My initial reluctance to convert to electrics was due to the high cost of lipos and ESCs. But now that I've accumulated the basic equipment and several batteries, it's not as intimidating any more.
I went just the opposite.......I started in glow in 1979. Then a few years back I thought I'd try electric so I bought numerous planes, batteries, ESC's etc. Tried it and I JUST HATED IT!!!!!! I sold all the electric JUNK and went back to glow and never looked back. When I say JUNK I don't mean that I bought cheap stuff......quite the contrary I bought really high end stuff but electric to me is so boring and the time involved in charging batteries for an 8 minute flight is just intolerable. Nothing but glow and gas for me!!