Yeah the jet community is definitely very open and friendly. When I first started looking into a turbine I got nothing, but help from people here, and even an offer to go fly one. However Im still a broke college student so I just found that jets are simply out of my price range. It's definitely not a "cheap" section of the hobby, and it's also an area where cutting corners or using "cheap" gear is both dangerous and costly.

Although I must say I enjoy watching jet guys fly! No matter if it's a jet, helicopter, prop plane, etc. The one's I have seen have all been top pilots who do nothing but grease landings, and smooth simply awesome flying. I think what turbine guys consider a "rough" landing is about 100 times smoother than your average flyers landing. Plus they do solid pre-flights, and are mature enough to "no-go" a flight if anything is funny.

Jets are definitely something to look forward to for me so I just plan to keep honing my skills untill that day. Also from all my reading, asking, etc. DF is probably a good idea becaus it is totally different than a prop plane (I fly EDF's). Plus you can get DF gear extra cheap now since the arrival of turbines. Also it seems DF opinions are mixed some have no problems, and some have nothing but problems. I think that is just like with prop planes when two guys with the same engines one cannot keep his running, and the other cannot remember the last time he had to tune his.

Also from what I've read, seen, and been told 12lb turbines just aren't the way to go. After looking around at "future" potential jets I might want to do I also quickly found out that a small turbine would not suite my needs.

Anyway thats just my 0.02 cents as I am not a turbine guy. Most of that is simply my opinion, and the advice given to me by turbine guys which I hold in high regard.