ORIGINAL: elenasgrumpy
The one other difference I notice between my nitro planes & my electrics that no-one ever seems to mention when this question comes up is the throttle response feel. With a combustion engine of any type fuel, you can feel the throttle & roll out the powerband. Not so with electrics IMO, they have a sort of all or nothing feel to them, which of course is not the case. You do have throttle management control it just has a much different feel to it. I preferr my nitro planes much better, but I like the little brushless Foamies to play around with. A much cheaper Airframe to learn to fly 3D on.
In a lot of cases, the "all or nothing" feel is a consequence of the throttle being
too linear. Prop thrust is proportional to rpm squared. Doubling the rpm quadruples the thrust.
Measure "half throttle" rpm on a gas or glow plane and the rpm will be much higher than half of the full throttle rpm. This non linearity of rpm results in nearly linear thrust because of the prop's exponential nature.
Some radios have the option of using "reverse exponential" on the throttle channel to give the throttle of an electric plane a more linear feel. Some ESCs may have reverse expo built in.