ORIGINAL: Crashem
Aearj unfortunatly provided costs and specs comparing electric park flyers to .40 sized trainers. It would have been a more realistic comparision if he had used 1/2A glow planes
Again this hobby nor any I know of are particularlly cheap its all a matter of perspective
You are certainly right, it ain't cheap, but it can be managed.
BTW, I didn't intend to compare my plane to your .40 trainer. I was providing costs for a typical parkflyer which is usually about 14-20 ozs. Just for clarity. Don't want to appear to be trying to bias anything. No one at my field flies electrics that large.
Since I didn't get an answer, I went and looked. Based on towerhobibes, looks like a gallon of glow costs about $20+. I don't have any idea how many flights that will yield. I am sure it depends on the plane.
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...=++&search3=Go
As for good trainer packages:
I don't know squat about glow planes, but I hear good things about the Hobbico NextStar RTF. Comes with a Futaba radio, fully built and all the electronics installed. Has a flight stabalization system, removable air breaks to slow it down during training and anti-stall wing cuffs.
Reviews I have read say it is one great package.
It received a product innovation award from FlyRC.
Worth a look.