RE: How do these fly?
If you want an ARF and based on what you say you are flying, I think you'd have plenty of fun with a symmetrical wing design such as a Big Stick. A symmetrical wing (or even semi-symmetrical) actually flies. A flat bottom wing basically floats around and wants to sit on it's a.. every stick movement you give it. A Big Stick 60 is lots of fun. Question is, the DLE is probably too heavy and not quite the peppy job you might want. Gassers do better on big models in my view but the 20 cc might do nicely on a 90 size scale aerobatic design such as a CAP, YAK or Edge. Even a Chipmunk or Zlin would be fun. I believe that Phoenix Models makes a decent looking Zlin ARF. No idea how it flies though. I think if you aim for 9-10 lbs max AUW, it will give you some thrills.
David