RE: Advantages/disadvantages?
I fly electric and glow.
My electric is my after work flyer. Just grab the batteries, the plane and the transmitter and off I go. At the field it’s more or les just plug and play until I’m out of charged batteries.
Nitro is a bit more time consuming. At the field you fuel up, tune the engine and then its fly, fuel up, fly, fuel up, fly…… all day long. Then you need to do some cleaning before you pack up and leave.
If I only have an hour or so, I like to spend the short amount of time flying and not setting up and cleaning. If I have a couple of hour’s time to go to the field I don’t mind taking all the equipment there and spending time cleaning.
I’m happy to have both! And maybe I’ll buy myself a nice gaser and plane to go with it for Christmas.