ORIGINAL: invertmast
ORIGINAL: Desertlakesflying
ORIGINAL: FILE IFR
ORIGINAL: mschneider2005
ORIGINAL: Airplanes400
ORIGINAL: Ron Stahl
Are you a modeler or an ARFer? I'm a modeler by profession and by choice in our hobby and always will be. You are a modeler if you have built a few planes from plans, scratch, or from a kit. ARF's are not kits no matter what some people try to imply. Sorry flame suit on.
Due to all this work, I usually spend 200 to 300 hours on a .40~.60 sized ARF so that it will last many years. Therefore, I do want to point out that
building an ARF correctly is just as much work, or more, than putting together a kit. With that in mind, if you build and ARF correctly, you are in fact, a builder. If you just assemble them in the 15 ~ 20 hours they 'suggest' then you are an ARFer and your ARF will usually not last a single season.
I can't tell you how many ARF'ers I've seen who wonder why their ARF crashed before they got a dozen flights out of it. Makes me laugh so hard!
Airplanes400
I think you may have added too many 0's in your estimated number of hours you spend upgrading a 40-60 size ARF. 20 to 30 hours is reasonable but 200 to 300 hours. C'mon Man!
Schneider, if you frequent this jet section often, you'll quickly realize the poster blows quite a bit of smoke when posting.
... I'm with you on this , 20 to 30 hours for a .40/60. sized ARF is the norm.
It takes one to know one when it comes the jet forums................Blowing smoke in the jet forums is par for the course, and most of the posters are shooting eagles...........
A wise man once told me ''if you don't like the party, don't go back''
Because there are a
few people that actually have something to contribute...........The smoke blowers get blocked because they are as pointless as they are useless.....