I have never understood why anyone would want to fly RC planes if money was an issue in the first place. I know that everyone has their limits and that's ok too but why spend $1500-2000 on a model and then dismiss spending another $40 to make it easier to set up and fly better?

The real problem is that in times past there was a clear separation between the guys flying large glow and the guys flying giant scale gasoline planes and in general those two types stayed within their comfort zones. Nowadays it seems that there are a lot of guys that have accepted the added expense to go to 50cc planes and yet they seem to want to hold the price down at the same time. I think what they forget is that they only get what they pay for and trying to save a few bucks once you hang a shaker on the nose is a recipe for failure.

I can remember a time when I thought it was a scary thing to realize I had $500 worth of model flying around at risk but accepted it. Amazingly enough my insanity has progressed through $1000 for 1/4 scale glows with poled digital servos and now $2000 for 50cc gas with coreless digitals and CF parts. Even I'm amazed at my own willingness to spend more and more on these toys and now I'm trying to decide if I should make the jump to 100cc or just go all the way to 150cc. That's a pretty big jump in price from $4K to $6K but the planes are so impressive and fly so well. Now once you start thinking about building and purtting at risk one of these you simply don't skimp on the parts you use in them. Unfortunately it seems that most guys don't develop that attitude till they have $4K or more invested, I think that attitude adjustment really should occur when they make the jump to gas, regardles of the scale.