RE: Well I Finally Done It !!!!!!!
I have three planes form them. Giles 202 50 sized, Fascination, and the low wing trainer 60 sized. All fly great. The Giles is a great plane, looks great, flies like it is on rails, has a sort of hot landing, but it is a Giles and not a trainer.
The low wing trainer is a smooth flying easy to cruise around plane. I think the CofG is to far forward and when balanced on the spar it wants to rock on the mains. Easy fix, bend the mains back at about 30 degrees. The hardware that comes with the low wing trainer could be better, but for the price, I spent $10.00 to replace the hardware I thought should be replaced. The covering did wrinkle, but they make heat guns for a reason. I ordered 4 of them at one time. There was one for me, my brother and my (2) brother in laws. We had a R/C geek weekend where we built the planes and BBQed. They went together pretty easy. The directions are VERY limited. My brother could have built it with a little help from me. My brother in laws said they would not have been able to put it together with out seeing how it was built. I would build a section and then walk them through it. They used mine as a full 3D picture to see how the parts fit. I had no problem with wither of the planes. The low wing trainer does fly really well. Lands very slow and easy.
The Fascination flies like a pattern plane. I have not gotten a lot of time with it yet. I had a few issues with the Magnum .52. It would not draw fuel. I found that varnish had built up in the needle valve in the time I had it stored. The time I do have with it, I do like the way it flies. Ho real bad habits and it slows way down to land. It flies as good as my old Spectrum from GP and it has real covering instead of the printed press on covering.
Are there better ARF's out there, yeah. Have I ever had a perfect ARF, no. When a kit runs $150.00 and I get an ARF for $90.00 covered and with all the hardware, it is hard to compare to my kit building and scratch built planes. No ARF can compare to what I build.
Dru.