No resentment of ARFS or ARF pilots intended what-so-ever, As stated I fly ARFS myself and O.P.s , Just purchased a G202 ARF at Toledo a few weeks ago, The thing is it will look just like the 500 other G202s from the same maker, it does take some ability to understand directions to assemble it , but it takes building experience or at least some kind of model experience to know what bad things to look for and correct. IF someone comes up to me and says "NICE PLANE" I'll say thanks but I will say to myself , Thanks for what ?, I didn't really build it, I didn't cover it, I had nothing to do with its look with the exception of assembly, And I will say their is something to say for assembling them clean and straight. I look at it as the same as buying a vehicle , someone says nice truck, well it looks just like the thousands of other Red Dodge Rams. Yes it hurts to see many hours of labor turned into a Pile of Balsa , But when I turned an ARF into pile if scrap the only real loss FELT was not being able to fly anymore that day, in less than a week I can have another just like it flying. I would gladly take the hurt of crashing my creation for the great feeling of seeing it fly. My solution to finding time to build was building smaller planes.

The statements about ARFS are intended to show the change in the hobby and attitudes of the people getting into it. Those that stick with it and pass on their knowledge be it flying , assembling ARFS or building kits is not who anybody is refering to. These will always be what keeps the hobby growing . But there is a large number (NOT EVERY, NOT ALL) of people who just want the instant thrill and have no patients to learn why and how it works, they simply want to do it now, and in many cases instructors are getting tired of devoting time to someone who really dosen't care, but what can you do, I guess we just have to take the good with the bad . In the past, the ones who were willing to spend the time to learn to build and set up be prepared were the ones who in MOST cases were going to stick with the hobby. I think you would have to agree that a large number of the people getting started now with ARFS will not stay with it long. There is a good thing to all the Fly-it- Now crowd, Sales are up for all equipment which keeps prices down for the most part. Otherwise the basic computer radios would still cost $500 or more. ARFS have been a great growth tool and will continue to be so, But the fact is there is a different crowd of people that come with it, non of which are Bad just differant.