I'll be at the Victorville contest with my ARF Kaos because that is all I've got. I just started practicing the Sportsman sequence today.
I'm finishing a Focus Sport ARC for later in the season.

As far as cost, the Focus Sport cost 199 dollars and the used YS 110's (good low timers) cost 300 each. It's expensive enough to travel to contests with the lodging and gas prices so high, and I set a limit on model expense because I came back to models from full scale acro, and I can do that for the price of IMAC. I can see the expense dilema for any and all.

I intend to build my own models for Pattern if I like it enough to progress. It isn't that hard and the time spent will be a good trade off to the 2,000 to 5,000 dollar difference. I like the 110-120 size models for now anyway.

Hope to see you on the contest trail this year, I'm planning on all of the SoCal events.

Chris...