ORIGINAL: Sport_Pilot
Seems to me the selection and options for their glow ARF's has gone downhill. Especially the sport planes. Some of the scale planes look interesting, but seems too many scale ARF's have no retract option. IMO scale planes with wire RC gear hanging down looks kinda dumb. Unless a simi scale sport scale, but many ot theirs look to be serious scale planes but with no retracts and plane wire gear.
I thought I was the only one noticing that. I agree with you 100%! I noticed it seems that manufactures are trying to force everyone to go electric because all I see new now are electric planes. I guess because electric planes are cheaper to produce and they sell more of them because all we need is a small field to fly them, and we can get away from joining any club or have the planes insured by the AMA.
I suspect people like me are getting hit hard by the economy so people are switching to electric or parkflyer because it's over all cheaper. But I'm a hard head and refuse to either switch to 2.4 radio's or electric planes. That's just me and I enjoy having that choice.
I left electric planes and moved up to glow/gas after my first year in flying. If they don't start making scale glow ARF aircraft soon, it looks like I'm going to ditch the whole ARF thing and go back to kit building.
I've pestered GP and Hanger 9 about it already and they don't seem to care. It's more about making money to them than making the consumer (Us) happy. What angers me a little is these manufactures like discontinuing good ARF models right after around the 3 year mark and parts are almost impossible to come by.
Did it ever occur to GP or Horizon that if they continued making parts for discontinued planes that they could make a better investment? Ask Fiberglass Specialties, they'll tell you they make a killing off of discontinued Kit/ARF cowls and wheel pants if you guys don't believe me.
Ohhh you got me started now.
lol
Pete