My interest in RC planes developed when I was about 7 years old. I begged for one for christmas that year and didn't get it, due mainly to financial reasons and the fact my parents talked to a few people that flew RC and they said it was a good hobby but just didn't think a 7 year old would have the approriate attention span to fly. Fast forward about 7 years and I got into electric RC cars, racing for a few months and spending more money than I was able to earn, so I stopped. a couple years later I had a job with steady income so i got into RC nitro buggies, started racing them and thought I was having fun. What I don't like about RC "cars" is if you're going to race them it's like a rat race, be at the track at a certian time for practice, run your heats then the main. everything is on a clock and it just made my weekends fly by it seemed like. Not to mention the cost of maintence, especially on those 1/8th scale buggies.

So during all that time racing RC cars I would go to the hobby shop and see the planes and think to myself, that would have to be the most boring thing in the world. What fun could you possiably have flying an airplane. I thought all you could do with a plane was fly in circles either to the left or right. BOY I WAS VERY WRONG!! Its just like everyone else has already said, it will consume you and all your free time and all the money you're willing to feed it. I've had more fun the past month learning to fly than I did in 4 years of buggy racing.