ORIGINAL: redbirdy
I have never had a bad arf. I'm sure if I keep buying them, I'll get a bad one just as I would eventually get a bad kit. I hear so much about how shoddy arfs are. I just don't see it. I think if a person does a little research, he will be ok just as in everything else. We have a couple of people who love to bash arfs at our field. Neither of them are very good pilots. I think the two sort of go hand in hand (bad pilot - arf basher). That's been my experience anyway.
The next time one of those guys bash an ARF, tell them if they would spend as much time in the air as they did in the shop building, that maybe they could fly a bit better. Sure, they "may" have a plane that's built just a tad bit more solid than an ARF, but who cares. If they can't fly it worth a crap, what's the sense in them even building it.