RE: Why the near obsession with over powering airplanes?
I have all types in my 25 airplane collection but the one that is most overall fun to fly is a Hobbistar with an OS .61 FS on it. I use it to train with and you can fly for an hour with the throttle back on cruise. Students do not need an overpowered model to learn with, it just gets them in trouble and kills their confidence. I have the others also but for learning and just scale-like, every once-in-a-while, relaxed flying for perfecting touch and goes, slow, lazy loops and rolls, this combo can't be beat.