Alright herese my back story. I never thought of trying the little electrics or much of electrics in general. I have been flying nitros since the beginning of the summer and love the larger heavier planes, I have an alpha 40 and escapade 40. I plan on building a kit soon at least the size of a 60, maybe a 90. But recently I had wanted to get into helis and got used deal on a dx6i, a blade cx2 and a blade 400. But now i have the dx6i ( before i had only had a 3 model old jr 72 mhz.) and i joined a aero design team at my school. I was thinking about giving a smaller electric or two a shot, since i got 10 model spots on the dx6i and already have 2 lipos for the blade 400 ( dont know if those same lipos would be usable on the planes but...).

But ive been staring down electrics in a new light, a couple of the guys have the smaller sized electrics. And the portability and versitilty is very attractive. theres a baseball dimond 300 feet away, where i gotta go pretty far to fly my nitros. I also wanted to give 3d a shot, with something i dont gotta worry about as much as a balsa big plane. So i liked the ideas of the profile planes like flatana or the rcuniverse bipe from GP, or GP's flexfoam 3d planes like the ucando3dd or yak that are in that flex foam. Any other rec's or anything to warn me about?

Like i said somehting im interested in and could use some ideas from the people that know.

Thanks.

Orange ... not meant to be an insult but stay away from Flatouts and planes of that sort. They fly well BUT its for pros only. Those planes are not happy when we dork them. I have been flying for a while now and recently I got the DualSky Breeze Pro and the Breeze ES. I started to break them again like I did a few years back with the FlatOuts. Look for planes made of EPP such as the planes seen in HobbyCity called SOUKA etc. The Multiplex Park Master is nice too but its bigger. They are not the most rigid planes but will survive a beginner's abuse and can be repaired using CA for immediate field repair.

You need to decide what sort of battery packs you want to use, 3S 900 or 3S 1,500 or 3S 2,200s. I am enjoying flying smaller 3D planes such as the DualSky Breeze ES on a simple 3S set up. Shop at Hobby City and you will be shocked to see how cheap the batts/esc/motor can be.

I didnt know about the flat outs, thats why i asked, But i also mentioned the the flight flex by GP i think they are similar to the ones you mentioned from hobby king. The ones from hobby king are half the price is there any difference? Also what will i want to look for in terms of set up, Like i said i do have two1800 mah 3s lipos for my blade 400, I dont know if the batterys would be compatible but it would be nice since it would give me a start to the battery collection. Also what do i lookfor in terms of esc. Like i said this would be my first electric. So i dont know too much about what goes into electric set ups. Id like to get something like one of these so i can start messing around and learning 3d, Id love to have a ultimate bipe or reactor bipe or something of the like in a 40 or 60 size nitro, but would be petrified to learn 3d on it. So id like to learn on something thats alittle less wallet threatning.

Thanks again

Orange ... I have no experience on the other planes. The HC planes such as the Souka fly nice, they flex a bit but is easy to 3D and prop hang. After some bashing they tend to be all warpy. Still its value for money. They do want a light set up, such as 3S 800 mAh packs.

But since you have 1,800 mAh packs why not go with the Multiplex Park Master, she flies nice. Look for a 25A ESC (DualSky and Turnigy ones are good enough but if you want beanded then why not, you got Castle Creation etc etc) and an outrunner such as the DualSky 2830-10 (1180KV) or its equivalent and turn a 10x4.7E. The set up will pull no more than 25A for sure. Gobs of power for prop hanging on the Park Master. It is a nice plane to fly, not to forget durable too.

Well actually as it turns out. I just went to my weekly club meetin for my college's aero design team and we were cleaning shop (threw alway lots o crap) and there was exactly what i was talking about a great planes flex flight yak 55. it was an old team members who had graduated and left alot of stuf and wasnt coming back for it. One of the team members had called it because he didnt want it tossed but, he has 3 current projects as it is so he said if i want it its mine.

it seems the esc is there but not the motor. It was never totaly assemebled but was put together, electronics were never installed, so its never been flown. looking on tower, the plane comes with the motor and gears, though those might still be floating around our workshop some where, they probably were missing becaues they were cannablized for another plane. (the circle of life in our workshop) its probably missing. Well i have a DX6i so i guess i need a comprable reciever and servos, What would people reccomend, I think i saw a flight pack for dx6i park flyer reciever and 4 servos, and what kinda motor do i need, like i said i have no previous experience in electrics.

Thanks