Originally posted by firefighter56
I like to build the kit for a little stress management. I get home from work and go into the garage and go to work. The days events are a million miles away.
The other reason is that I get to know my plane.
Some of the older designs can only be built as a kit from plans that you purchase. Kit building gives you experience for scratch building.
Instant gratification is the norm for our whole country today. Were raising a generation of blooming idiots when it comes to mechanical processes. They've taken shop out of the school system, we need to instill in our kids that somethings take time to accomplish and hard work is not going to kill them.
I understand that for some people, there is just no time to build a plane from a kit. And to those people I think the AFR's the answer. I would just like to see the companies let the consumers choose to buy the plane as a kit or ARF.
Couldn't have said it more perfectly firefighter !