The great thing about this hobby is that you can focus on many different aspects. If you love to fly, go buy a built plane and fly it. If you love to build, go build a plane and fly it. In theory a checkbook modeller would be a better flyer because they spend all their time flying and not building.

Personally, I like to build. I am VERY slow at it, and not very good, but I like it. But when I want to fly, I grab my ARF and go fly. It is also nice to bang up an ARF and not a plane you spent a year or more building.

We should look up to the checkbook modeller. They pour copious amounts of money into the hobby allowing manufacturers the capital to make new and improved products that benefit all of us.

ARF trainer manufacturers make a TON of money at Christmas when Mom and Dad get their kid a 40 sized trainer that will never actually make it in the air. We need these people. I say go spend all the money you want on an ARF, crash it, and go buy something else.

Manufactures don't make that much on a guy who buys a plane, builds it and flys it for the next 5 years. They make their money on Checkbookers. That helps us all.