RE: Pattern planes Why do they cost so much
It's hard to believe that there's room in the market for another el-cheapo, no-name, 50cc sized ARF Yak/Extra but no market for a non-scale plane that's built well and actually flies properly.
However while I have never owned one, a bloke in our club has an Excelleron 90 with a 120AX in it. The owner isn't a pattern flyer and I doubt it's trimmed properly but it just seems to "sit" well in the air. I can't comment on it's construction or weight and I don't know how hard he's working on the sticks but from the moment it takes off it just looks planted in the sky and doesn't bounce around or have any nervousness about it. You know how F3A ships just look and sit different in the sky, well this looks very similiar.
If I didn't have too many planes, I'd buy one for my 140RX just to see if it really does fly as good as it seems to be flying. It may have horrible control coupling for all I know but if it does, the owner is doing a very good job of hiding it.
Brett