RE: Kit Building Forum Activity
I never have assembled an ARF for myself, I did buy A used one though and just sold it last summer. After I fixed all the problems it was an OK plane. I do assemble ARFs for customers once in A while still.
Unless I can get A kit at auction or from someone at A very low price I build my own planes from plans and mostly kits for customers. I never lost intrest in the Sky Shark kits, I could just never cut loose for that kind of money for A 60 size plane but I loved building them for someone else with deeper pockets, I thought they were the best kit on the market.
I have two student pilots right now, after there solo I will help put them into A nice cheap ARF so they can keep flying and won't care too much when they destroy it. During this flying time I will help them out with building there own plane. If they want to keep building then cool, if not they will at least know how to repair there own planes when they start to fall apart.