BLWBLW, your rigth on the spot, but it is not bad or we have just adjusted our minds to it, it would however be VERY nice to fly almost anywhere without noise restrictions, which is the biggest factor to overcome, noise limit in general are up to the citcouncil to decide, fluing fields way in the open, if we are able to get the permission from those livinf "nearby" .
At our field we do have a noise limit on 82dB with engine running full thrittle at 10 m. distance ehhh that's 33 feet. plane 3 feet above ground.

The fee does include insurance to, I dont think it is crazy, but sometimes people does crazy things, and these rules an restrictions are only meant as a help to us, however we are not allowed planes over 25 kgs (56 pounds)inc. fuel and smoke oil.

Rainedav, excastly Lanier do some nice things and turttledeck in ABS!! I did throw my away a made a built up off balsa and light ply, quality off balsa in the kit did go from soft to hard without any reason.

Joen