What kind of flight times are people getting with what packs? And has anyone hooked up a watt meter to it to see what it's drawing with differnet packs and props? I've had several potential students ask me about the plane. While it looks like an electric version of a Hobico Superstar (and nothing like a Nextstar), and I'm sure from an aerodynamic perspective it flys great, I was wondering about the power available from the stock power system and the flight duration.

Has anyone who's flown typical .40-class glow trainers also flown one of these who can offer a performance comparison?

Oh, and guys, it's NOT a park flyer. The weight alone should tell you that, don't fly this thing in a park. It has the impact force of a .40 size glow trainer, and planes in that size class have killed people in the past. Not to say you will, and not to be overly dramatic, but a 6lb plane at 40-50mph to the head or chest will do a lot of damage if it hits nose-on. Don't fly this plane anywhere that someone might be wandering around or walk out in front of your plane as your landing or taking off, or where you might crash down on them.

Also, at my field, .40 size trainers with the same wingspan as the Electristar can easily get over 500 yards away from the pilot. That's 5 football fields from where you're standing, striaght out, to your left, and to your right. And I'm not making up that distance either. My field has high-tension power lines that measure out at 1400ft from the pilots boxes to the left and right side, and both have been hit multiple times by planes in that size class. Now, the planes are normally kept a lot closer, but inexperienced pilots often get farther away than they mean to be. With an experienced instructor, if this plane fliys like a typical trainer in it's size class, I'd say you really need at least ~900 feet left and right, and ~500 feet straight out. With a less experienced instructor, you need more room, and with no instructor you need even more.

While you can get the plane up and down on a football field or soccer field, you'll be over-flying whatever is around the field, and you don't want that to be houses, roads, and people.