I was out for 15yrs. Too much work time, never weather cooperating with my work schedule. My Dynaflite Butterfly ( .25 powered 9 ft wingspan motor glider) required a club field to fly and I could never get there! Pressures of raising three children as well kept me out. Last spring my mom-in-law gave me $100 for my birthday. All my kids grown and now have a job where I work by appt only. No appts? Time to FLY!! Began with electrics this time so I could fly in my local park. Built a Great Planes Lil Poke and found out quickly that: 1. I did NOT remember how to fly. 2. This plane is underpowered and I don't know anything about electrics!! Put the lil' poke aside and built a Great Planes Basic Light Trainer. Now we are talking....many, many flights. Lots of stick time. Started haunting this site and another that does only electric only and begins with watt.. Got a copy of FMS and practiced a lot. Put a park 400 on the lil poke and now she flies well, but still too much for my skills. After several flights it became a lawn dart. Bought second kit (same plane) and this time built it straighter and lighter. Flies really well. Scratch built a semi-symetrical aileron wing for it and flew many more times. After several "hard" landings, the fuse was getting too heavy, so scratch designed my own fuse to resemble a Golden Era Cleveland Air Racer (uses the same wing). Upped the power to a park 480 and 220watts. Now fully aerobatic and flies for 20 minutes on the 3000ma LiPoly. 27oz all up weight. You can tell by the mud on the tires, this one gets a lot of airtime!