I flew my plane (Dream 110) at the Signal Seekers pattern contest in Westland Michigan this past weekend. It was great! My plane dosen't hurt for power, in fact, I never used full throttle for the entire contest. That probably hurt me a little, but with nerves and all the other things I had on my mind at the time it never occured to me to fly the sequence a little faster. I'll have to go back and check my Wattmeter reading, but I'm fairly certain it read something like 1400 watts. My plane weighs 9 lbs, so that's only 155 watts/lb. The plane has unlimited vertical and I mean unlimited. I can stop it in a vertical climb and then pull up and out of it with no trouble. I hesitate to use the word hover, since the plane isn't a 3D machine and it really dosen't hover, per se.

Wiz