...way to THROW away your hard earned CASH!!!! IMO!!

Here is MY story of VMAR/Richmond RC(herein known as VMAR) customer satisfaction or lack of it.

I got back into flying after a twelve year layoff..I still had an older beautiful EZ Cessna 182...but as luck would have it, my first landing attempt..with an instructor who decided to start jabbering with another club member by my side..I filtered it through some branches. ADIOS wing..everything else came out relatively unscathed..enough of that. So I see and read this ad..I buy the VMAR APACHE 40 trainer...it has a bolt on wing and looks nice and HUGE!!

Three weeks and 3 phone calls later..I get a plane..OK I can deal..it's shipped from CANADA.....keep that it mind.

I start to assemble this li'l gem..let's see a li'l glue here for the tail feathers..WHOA....why is the stab looking like the leaning Tower of Pisa?? So I check the cutouts and the left slot is higher by 4mm..and the fuse is lying FLAT on a FLAT table and the FUSE looks to be true other than the cutout.

I call VMAR, they in turn put me on hold for awhile. I speak, get told just rasp down the high-side....I'm not building a 747!!

I disagree cuz there won't be enough strong wood left back there and I want a straight flying plane as the ad states.

So, I end up PAYING the Shipping charges to VMAR and back FROM VMAR for the replacement kit!! THAT'S THREE shipping charges I have now ate for VMAR. The new kit?? It arrived TWO weeks later and it had WING damage from shipping(cracked ribs and holes in covering!!) SCREW this..I don't need the aggravation.. I'll fix it myself!!

The plane got me back into flying but I had to MAKE it flyable!
No newbie beginner would have seen all the problems.

"It's got DUBRO"..remember that slogan they were using..well it wasn't DUBRO for any CRITICAL stuff..unless you consider landing gear straps critical..oh, 4 clevises were DUBRO too..SORRY!!

Well that's my SORDID tale.."F"- VMAR
This plane was no BAHGAN fo'me!!