ORIGINAL: gaRCfield
Sounds good to me. Every contest I go to, I look at all the planes and pick my favorite - it's always the Integral (unless Dave's Bravo is around). And I fly intermediate, I just need a plane that flies straight. There should be plenty of info in this thread, and others, about what to do and what to change to get a pretty darn good flying airplane.
Did yours come with the silver or clear canopy? There are not many new planes left out there so I bought what I could find - the picture showed the 'old' pic with the clear canopy but I'm not sure what I'll get. Supposedly the silver one is lighter.
Joe, the stock Integral flies very well with no changes. I have a 'few' flights on Integrals and the setup recommendation I give people is basically move the CG forward to roughly 165mm from leading edge. That CG makes the plane track very well and reduces knife edge 'tucking'. Other than that, no other changes are really necessary. If you get really carried away, you can add adjusters, etc, but the Integral flies very well in stock configuration.
CARF reduced component weight quite a bit from the original release kits and it is pretty easy to make weight without replacing components if you use a light motor such as Pletty, Neu, Hacker. Flying Intermediate, you don't need big batteries so you can use 44-4500mah batteries and that helps also. My son has an Integral that is under 5K gram limit using a Himax 6330 and Flightmax 5000mah batteries and we didn't replace any components.
Woodie