There's no money to be saved building a kit if the ARF version is available.

However, there is value in building a kit. For me, I like building things but there's another good reason.

When learning to fly last fall with my LT-40 ARF, I damaged the wing. It looked pretty bad to me at the time so I threw the damaged wing away and bought a new replacement ARF wing - $90. I could have bought the whole ARF for about $140. $50 is $50 I guess...

Over this winter I built two kits; a 4*60 and an LT-25.

From the experience of kit building, I could have repaired the ARF wing for less than $10 or $15.

You learn so much more about these planes by building them...

My $.02.

Dave
AMA 847123