No one needs to apologize for liking, owning, and flying ARF model airplanes. Nor do they need to apologize for asking if a kit built plane is an ARF. Chances are they admire the plane and would like to have one too. In spite of one man's opinion ARFs are not in general a POS. Most are pretty well thought out, fly good, and look good too. The first ARF a beginner glues together will take 10 - 20 hours of work and present plenty of challenges for the first timer. Most new people want to fly airplanes, not necessairly build airplanes, however a lot of people do become interested in building if they continue to fly.

You know for all the chest pounding about ..... Them who can build. Them who can't buy an ARF ....... at one time kit building was probably looked down on too. I wonder when it bacame ok to use factory cut Balsa planks vs traveling to the jungle and chopping the tree down yourself, then I started to wonder when it became ok to scratch build from a proven design vs designing it yourself, drawing it up, cutting all the parts from the factory cut Balsa planks, then I began to wonder when it became ok to build from a precut kit vs scratch build from the plan, and now I wonder when it will become ok to buy an ARF and fly it ??