The same trend exists in kit and ARF manufacture. Look at the ads, nearly everything being sold today is hyped with the word "3-D". Yet from what I see, the large majority of sport fliers don't fly 3-D. So they're stuck with planes designed for a flight regime they will never use.

The sport fliers at our club that fly the 3-D ARFs are always amazed when I fly my old pattern planes. They don't realize how much of what they're seeing is the plane and not me. If only they knew how much their flying would improve by flying something like a Kaos or an Ultra Sport.

But that 3-D buzzword sells planes and the one size fits all attitude says that if it will fly 3-D it must be good for anything.

Dave