Originally Posted by
av8tor1977
What you say is quite true, but there is a "dark side" to scratch and kit building too. Sometimes it is difficult for me to fully enjoy flying those planes, because so much of my valuable TIME is invested in them. Many times the only way around it for me is to just hang them up and let them look pretty, and after a while, I tend to forget all the effort that went into them. Then I can fly them with less trepidation.
I hear ya.
My solution to trepidation came 30 years ago when a friend was going to throw away his crashed airplane.
Instead he gave it to me, and I repaired it into an ugly flyable beast.
Because it had been crashed already and was so ugly,
the trepidation about crashing disappeared and flying became fearless fun.
I think that might be one reason why the Ugly Stik is so popular.
Besides flying great, the trepidation about crashing an ugly airplane is less.
I agree with you about the cost of ARFs.