Just leave the retracts down, and you set to go assuming your talking a SPA (pre 1975 designed) plane. SPA is really simple and the folks are some of the best guys you could ever ask to spend time around,eventhough the AMA crowd of folks are great to, they are, as a general rule just a little more serious for the most part, well, at least some are. Don't get me wrong I'm dead serious when the TX switch's on, but otherwise I'm totally kicked back, kinda like my old Basset Hound,he he he.
Its hard to say which one I like the best, there both a blast. If I could fit a IMAC plane in my VW Passat sedan (50 MPG), I'd fly some of that stuff also.
Just like all types of aerobatic flying. IMAC is on the way up and coming, just right now there contest are to spread out in distance and a little to complicatated for me. The contest I try to attend except for a few exceptions is 250 miles one way.
A friend of mine is putting together a Horizon Hobby Showtime that'll be my first good size Electric ship, then plan on changing all my planes over this fall to the EL. setups.
Jamie