Hoping that Ad or his son would post on this thread. I bought his almost new AMT 280SP as he was updating to an AT-400 due to his high density flying. At that time we talked about flying his 4 off grass. Apparently they have a very nice field.

David, after seeing Vernon do the deadsticks at FJ with his 4, and having the gear, and in fact the whole plane survive relatively unscathed, flying off our field would be no sweat. While not a golf green, it is almost as nice as the short cut on an Augusta fairway...:>)

The only thing that I have ever done bad to my Bandit was crack the NG flex plates, while learning how to land it in a moderately strong headwind. They really are way to easy to break for grass ops, so I have switched to the metal NG plates. The intrinsic spring in the metal plates, since they have no forward attachment like the C/F ones aids in the shock absorption. They appear to be a cast material, since I broke one on my old Bandit, so they still offer fracture protection in a really bad N/G hit.


Tom