People either hate or love SPAD's. I really enjoy my modified SPAD Debonair. I think you can learn a lot from them and have a lot of fun. Don't rule them out RC Freak. They take a lot of abuse and rebuild easily. I will agree that my Debonair is kind of a "dog", but I've been flying the heck out of it. One guy at the field calls it the "gutter plane", but who cares, it's all in fun. Kidding at the RC field is normal. I'd like one that I could just hand launch. Would make it ever simpler.