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.
Your post is exactly the opposite on how I came into flying glow planes. I wanted to buy an Pulse XT 25e because I wanted to get into flying bigger planes. (That's how it works right?) I was just about to buy one when I seen how much one battery was going to cost -$100! [sm=eek.gif] Of course you can't just have one battery, you have to have at least two of them, three if you want to continue to fly at the field all day doing a fly/charge cycle. So a friend of mine sold me a Pulse XT with an OS .46 on it and I haven't looked back. I still have a small electric I fly around my front yard with and an electric AP plane, but for me it's all glow for now. I'll probably switch to gas down the road, but right now I'm having a blast.
Frank
PS I just bought a gallon of 20% yesterday. $18 and some change out the door.