Just a by the way if your buddy had difficulty with his Lipo set up there was probably something wrong as even a number of teh die hard IC flyers at my club are now coming round to electric as the leccy fliers turn up, put a battery in teh plane and fly, when it's flat they change the battery and fly again as opposed to wasted hours tuning / setting up engines that never seem to run properly.

Don't get me wrong I'm not critising IC (can't beat the smell and sound) and would love one if they had the ease and simplicity / reliability of electric.