Well that pretty much nukes my interest in them. Also, those other flyers are taking forever if you got two flights in before they got off the ground at all. They only have maybe 30-45 seconds more pre-flight to do than you do, they should have been queued up on the taxiway. I know I would have been. Takes me longer just to get set up than it does to get my glow cars running around, not gonna putz around with the plane either. Rx pack charged up? connections good? Surfaces wiggling right? Noise coming out of the engine? Time for takeoff!


My two biggest issues with electric, and my heli is a pretty bad offender here, is as such: You spend ten times the time charging as you do flying, avoiding doing this involves spending more on batteries and chargers than you spent on the airframe they're going in. Secondly, electric motors don't have any of the soul that engines do, and that soul is what attracted me to this hobby in the first place. If it wasn't for watching glow powered cars in parking lots and seeing a glow powered trainer hanging from a hobby shop ceiling I'd still be doing model railroads.