I'm way into building kits and as I said earlier I'm not a big ARF fan. But yesterday at the field I ran across a guy who had an intersting situation that pertains to this topic with a slightly different twist. He and his son built a .40 Sig Kadet and began to get flight training... I flew with them on the buddy box several times. Anyway, they decided to try to fly it themselves and ended up crashing the plane. Not a total loss but it will take a month or so for them to get it back to flying condition with work and school. So he went out and bought an ARF to get them flying quickly, he's afraid his son might lose interest if it takes too long to get back in the air. The ARF gets them flying now. I think that's a pretty good reason to buy an ARF.. Plus they also get to spend time rebuilding the Kadet... And his dad was asking me if I would give him pointers on building a Top Flite P47 kit.... Sounds like he wants to fly NOW but learn to build kits too.... Could be a healthy niche for the ARF.

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