Some of us have a very limited budget. We have a guy locally who searches trash cans at the flying fields. When he finds a useable wing or fuse, he does minor repairs, mates up the mismatched parts, installs his one old K&B 40 and Conquest 4 channel, begs, borrows or buys a tank of fuel and goes out to fly. This guy flys RC for well under $100 a year.

If you can scratch together just a bit more than that, you can buy a VMAR ARF that looks a whole lot better that a trash can plane. (At least for a while.)

VMAR has it's place in the market, and I would go so far as to say that it actually serves a worthwhile purpose, by keeping some people in the hobby who otherwise couldn't afford it.

Jim