20 years ago if you flew, you built planes or bought a kit plane already built. 20 years ago we had 60 members in our club. Now we have 150 members and only 4 or 5 build kit planes. All the rest are ARF"s..I think the kit business but with the exception of just a few is about dead. If you progress through this hobby and develope flying skills with arfs, you will probably be at the mercy of a "builder" if you wish to have a good selection of top end planes. Most of the good flyers cant build because of this. Some of our best pilots have learned and moved up with ARF's but sooner or later they will want a Carden. When that happens give a builder a call...This with $1.80 will get you a medium StarBucks coffee..