Interesting.... I have never seen a 40% go in, there's just not that many of them in my area. I do see a couple of 1/3 scales crash at our club each year and one in particular flattened quite a bit of corn. The last few where from pilots who weren't exactly newbies but not up to that level of plane. One lost an aileron servo, and the other guy hadn't flown an R/C plane in 5+ years and crashed on the first flight. I may have built my first and only "big bird" a 1/5 scale Decathalon. If the weather is nice it will do its madien flights this weekend and on a estimate I have about $1,000-1,200 in the plane total. The money really isn't the issue: the plane disassembled takes up most of my truck bed, and it took me six months to build, during which time I could have build several smaller planes. I also seem to bang and knick the thing, every time I move or walk around it, so it just as well that I start flying it.