As far as I know, it's true. PL is in a state of flux. Russ may have different information, but then Russ is a distributor of sorts.

As for the rest of us, it's getting silly. On one hand yeah it's cool to have all those euro kits floating around, but on the other hand, what if you need replacement parts? Hey it happens to everybody. Ya lose a canopy over the swamp, your chin cowl shreds off, or you just have a bad off runway landing and poof...you need parts.

They just aren't readily available. What do you do, not fly and wait 3-6 months (or more) praying you'll get lucky? Or order a set of wings (because the wing tubes wallowed out at the end of the tube and almost snapped a panel), pay for it, and then....I kid you not....2 years later have never seen them? Even though they were paid for, and they said "oh they shipped, I can't help you check with the shipper" (who knows nothing BTW)....true story, and one of many (and that was ZN!)

It's getting stupid. The more we rely on high end, overseas airframes, the more we put ourselves at thier mercy.

Or maybe even this: Hey let's get a Focus 2! Umm oh wait they're gone, and my bet is they won't be coming back...just like the Focus 1 and the Temptation....but hey there's the Brio!!! Of course, we haven't heard anything about that since last September...last year sometime......

Some of you guys say there are more options than ever, I say there are less than when I first started the current 2 meter pattern 4 years ago. If you want super high dollar stuff that you have to wait a year to get and then can't get parts for it, sure it's there. But not much else. I'd say the only semi-promising planes now are the Arresti (which is heavy) and the Icepoint (which is basically a Tai Ji with slight mods).

It looks bleak, and getting bleaker every time someone


ahh screw it, rant off.

BTW welcome to RCU Derek, and post more!!! This is where "we" live.

-Mike