I'd do gas in a heartbeat. Lots less mess and I can be flying in 5 minutes which makes this plane a great lunch time plane. 2 wires, 2 wing bolts fill it, flip it a total of 7 times (4 chjhoke on, 3 choke off) and go have fun. Yes the intial layout is a bit more but if you fly a lot you will see the savings pretty quickly and with the new clone gas engines coming out like the DL50 or the 3MM 53 then your initial layout gets even less and more in the range of the OS160 glow engine