Boy I love the internet. Someone comes on here to crow about their first flight, and they get family advice. If I had to temper and condition every question or comment I type with unrelated background information, I'd run out of characters in the reply box. Perhaps sportser75 was just a little excited and made a hyperbolic comment? Naw, never possible--he must be a neglectful father--sheesh! Anyway, enough bandwidth wasted on that! Welcome to the addicti....err, hobby, sportser75! I'm sure you'll find a way to balance it with the rest of your life. And, I concur on the advice to hold off on the tuned pipe for now--there are cheaper ways to up the performance of the .46, such as increased nitro content in the fuel or a different prop as alluded to by fastsky.