I have a stable of both types. My "glow" stable was bigger, but some low life tooka liking to my collection and decided that they were better being a part of his.

I was left mainly with electrics and had to make them my primary stable while rebuilt my glow one. I have had such fun with the "sparks" that I haven't started the latter task yet.

As pointed out, currently the cost of large packs and chargers is prohibitive, so have stuck to small stuff (Speed 300 and Speed 400 size) for my electrics.(models in the 30-36 inch wingspan range)

Old 1/2A pylon racers are excellent candidates for electric conversion and can be flown as "powered slopies" at Slope Soaring sites with a Speed 300 or 400 sized brushless outrunner and a 2 or 3 cell Lipoly and 18 amp ESC. Speed is determined by prop size as well as the number of cells and Ma/H rating of an installed pack.

With a small, lightweight model, such as those made by ALFA, I can get up to 40 mintues non stop, constant powered flight from a 2s1p 2200Ma/H Lipoly pack.

I chose to make this 4 x 10 minute flights. 2 packs give me a day's flying and the total life of each pack (around 300 cycles) is far less in outlaid $$ than what I would spend on enough 5% nitro glow fuel to fly a .46 sized glow model for the same time. (200 hours)

I find that it's a good alternative to glow powered flying if one feels like a bit of a change, or, like me, was forced to change for a temporary time.

Really, both types are good and as time goes by and more development work is put into electrics (especially in Asia) causing prices to fall, it will become more popular.

One only as to look at the current trend in glow of models getting bigger (as Asian made ARF's get bigger) to see that the next untapped field for the manufacturers, is electrics.

I still intend to rebuild my glow powered model stable in time. With a 1/2 a dozen unused Glow engines (2 and 4 stroke) lying in my engine drawer, it's a waste to have them sitting there.