I don't think everything is so black and white. I fly electric only right now. I am very comfortable with electric power and have a very good understanding of setting up an electric plane. Once dialed in, there are no adjustments that ever have to be made, just turn on your radio, set the model, plug-in the battery, do a pre-flight check and go fly. We get the most stick time of all flyers at the club. Electric is very easy on the airframe with no vibration or fuel destroying the model over time. We have glow/gas only guys at our club that once they have their glow/gas engines adjusted and working good on the same regular fuel they use, they just fuel up and go.When they are done, they wipe down their planes and go home.We also have some glow/gas guys that bring planes with glow/gas engines that are NOT ready to fly and fight them the whole time they are there. Sometimes, they don't even get a flight in.One of the glow guys who keeps his planes in immaculate condition and rarely ever touches the needles on his glow engines got a plane that he really likes but with a gas engine. He has had a lot of trouble with this engine with multiple dead sticks, he got the engine worked on by the vendor at least once. He has mentioned that he wished he never put a gas engine on his plane and instead had a glow engine on it. He does seem to be gaining on the issues and has cut down his dead sticks and time spent trying to get the engine dialed in. Most of the members at our club get knowledgable and confortable with using one type of power system, switching pushes us out of our confort zone forcing us to learn all the ins and outs of the new power system. I am thinking about putting together a small 40 size plane with a NV 40 gas engine for the challenge and learning experience. I am waiting to get my health issues worked out and the funds to purchase yet another plane ;-)
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