Yes, I am just talking about the Cloud Dancer 60 ARF. I am actually a writer and so I understand exactly what the issue is. The assembly instructions for this plane were, very obviously to a writer, originally written in an Asian language (probably Chinese) and then translated into English by someone who speaks English as a second language. This is obvious to me as a writer after reading the pdf manual online. For someone who has never put a plane together before, the manual that comes with that plane doesn't actually tell you how to put the plane together. I really think this plane would be really popular as a second plane if they had someone who speaks English as a first language and is experienced with model planes write them a new manual for English speaking markets.

Anyway, I was thinking I didn't want to be bothering people with "newbie" questions about how to put a plane together so I would just find one with instructions that I can understand. But, after visiting 3 local flying fields today and talking to people there, and reading some of the replies here about this, I think I will still get a Cloud Dancer 60 as my second plane and just ask people who have build planes before to look at what is confusing me and tell me what was really meant. After meeting "the RC crowd" today I don't think you guys will be bothered by a few simple questions about putting a plane together. Which is great, cause I really like that plane:-)

If you want to see an example of what I am talking about look at the pdf manual for the Cloud Dancer 60. This is just one example... Look at the instructions for installing the retractable landing gear... When you get to the picture of the servo with the wires sticking out of the hole, and the directions end at that point... ask yourself how you would know what to do from there if you had never put a plane together before. Like I said, I think I could do it if I had put one together before. But if it is the first plane you are putting together (even an ARF), this manual translated by someone who only knows English as a second language just doesn't actually explain how to do it. The directions for assembling the retractable landing gear are a great example, they just kind of end half-way through the process.

But I understand most of it, and with helpful people like you guys and the people I met at the fields today I should be able to get a Cloud Dancer 60 together this winter. I'm pretty sure that if I am still flying these things a decade from now I will call the Cloud Dancer my "beater plane" (but then I bet most people's "beater plane" is their low wing trainer). So I am getting an Arrow 40 trainer and some flight sim software next month, and putting together a Cloud Dancer 60 just as soon as I get snowed in:-)

Oh, there was a guy flying a huge (I think it said 10/300 on the side if I remember right) gas powered Aeroworks Ultimate at one of the fields at today. He was really good at flying and the plane was just amazing. That was really cool:-)