RE: Novice seeking advice
I fly both and must admit that electric surely has an upside (ease of use, not messy after flying), but I still prefer the sound and smell of a glow engine. One guy in our bunch is flying a 110" Cub with an OS 2.0 four stroke engine on the nose. That thing looks and sounds so real in flight that it is uncanny. Electrics just don't do that for me. Another guy has a 15' C130 with four Saito 180s powering it. I have never heard anything like those four 180s at full throttle before takeoff. It's awesome. Four electrics on the wing of that C130 just ain't gonna be the same. Electrics are clean, but glow is where it's at.