Very interesting comments and observations, I have to say that I have seen some of that at my flying field, the groups, the tons of ARF ( myself included ) and yes there is no praide so loosing an ARF means nothing, thats how I felt whem my 30cc Escapade went in right infront of me.<br /><br />I have been thinking that I want to build from kits more often, like before, I already started by completing my Ziroli Turbinator, next is a BTE Reaction and I have been contemplating to build a Hammer 40 from a laser short kit, why all this building again, simple, I had enough of ARF look alike, I want to have something unique.

I'm still typing ( at work at the moment )

I was remembering just the other day how much fun was to build my very first trainer, I've had two other airplanes before ( I bought them from a friend ) after I build my first airplane I was hooked on building, I used to be able to frame up a sport 40 size airplanes in a week and have it covered and ready to fly the following week, my last build took me just under 10 years to build, I'm changing that, I'm glad that some airplane plans are available as laser cut short kits so the building can continue.