ORIGINAL: yellerchamp
After 5 years of flying rc, and loving pattern flying I have decided to hang up glow engines. When I started glow fuel was 10.00 a gallon. I just priced it locally and its $31.00 a gallon. With a son in college thats out of my price range. Especially when you have to practice alot.
My favorite plane is the venus II,maybe down the road I can convert to electric. Guess I will be unloading at the swap meets later this year. Personaly I think we are be taken for a ride by the glow manufacture's and I am getting off.
I hope to start flying pattern again next year, after about a five year hiatus. I am working on getting a .110 size electric together. The priice of glow fuel is
not a factor. Electric gives me a little more flexibility in finding practice sites. My current flying site involves a twenty mile drive to a site that is endangered by the widening of Stata Highway 76. The money saved on glow fuel
might make up for the cost of batteries for a .50 sized plane. At .110 size, it would be cheaper for me to fly 2m glow. I can only dream about comming up with discretionary budget for a 2m electric.