Gyro's have pro's and cons. I've flown air frames setup with both (not pattern ships and not my planes). I don't really like the feel of a Gyro personally for aerobatics, feels un-natural to me for precision. Pattern and IMAC are awesome in there raw forms. The satisfaction comes from the hours of time and experience that comes with fine tuning an aircraft to fly the way we want them to (Gyro's make things generic). Gyro's can be setup to enhance some areas of performance, yet hinder other areas. Are we talking about Gyro's with head locking and/or a Gyro that just dampens. A Gyro that just dampens servers very little purpose in precision aerobatics. The addition of most Gyro's greatly affects ones setup, most of the time you have to disable functions that are fairly critical to trimming and mixing and you let the Gyro take over. Most Gyro's do not compensate well for adverse yaw or pitch with rudder inputs (rolling loops or combinations thereof. I believe they have a place in the market share, not sure it's with aerobatic precision other than jets, EA or foamies. There are some great products out here and a certain radio brand is building Gyro's into their receivers. I have found that extreme aerobatics benefit the most as do jets and then some foamies.

I tend to lean toward setup and the 80 or so flights it takes me to fine tune an air frame for all aspects. I will will say this, if Gyro's become legal in the future it puts everyone at the same level playing field of setup, setup, setup...., and that concepts doesn't change regardless.

Bill