I started in the hobby with only ARF's as i cant build straight for the life of me, but more and more im leaning towards building my own..

I have scratch built a Quickie 500 type of plane for my first as it was a box fuse and a non tapered wing and i didnt check the way the ailerons was moving and she went in. But i loved building my own.I have since built a new fuse for it.

I have also grabed an plan off one of our older club members of a Super Declatalon and its for a 2m size plane which im going to try and scratch build next year.

Ive had 10 ARF's since i started flying at the end of 2003 and found my self getting bored with the hobby so ive been flying pattern for the last year trying to push myself to do better and have been doing it with an ESM Adrenaline ARF. I needed to find some direction as none of the models gave me the exctiement that my first flight with my trainer did.After a club member gave me a Cyclone pattern plane that he didnt want i got hooked on the buildng side of things..The Cyclone was a one off and was scratch built but it was damaged and fixing this plane made me want to do more.

I think that if i didnt start with ARF;s i would of been too attached to what ive built and wouldnt of pushed my flying ability as much and wouldnt be where im at today.Sure i crashed alot,but now i know SOME of my limits and i think im a better pilot for it..

Being only new to the hobby i hope i can gain alot of knowlage off the older guys about building as im lucky to have alot of them at my club and they are master builders.