I was going to order myself a new Avistar rtf from tower hobbies this week, but I got to looking at the tower trainer and realized it comes with a different engine than the Avistar. The Avistar has a .40LA engine where the tower trainer has a .46ABC engine. Now from my rather limited experience in glow engines, isn't the .40 LA a non ball bearing engine, and the .46 ABC engine has bearings? If so, wouldn't the tower be a better buy than the avistar due to a better engine? As for the plane itself, isn't the tower trainer built by Great Planes with a Tower Hobbies label on it? If so, I would consider it a pretty decent plane. If it isn't, please let me know. Also, the radio in the tower trainer is made by Futaba right? So is the radio in the Avistar. The really nice part about all of this is that the Tower trainer is about $20 cheaper than the Avistar. Is this a good deal or not? I would really value everyone's input on this.

Samsdad