Electric or Glow - its a R/C lifestyle question. For my dollar and time, glow and 4-cyce is better. I get more practice time on this setup. Instead of stating the differences, I'll state the similarities:

1. You need spare components on hand to compete with either
2. Electric is just as affected by the weather as glow - consider a humid or windy day - E-power just uses more battery (and you may run out!)
3. Small deviations in electric flight-to-flight changes affects throttle and power consistency to the same or greater affect as deviations you would see with a glow setup. Electric is not as "consistent" as one may think it is when you consider battery temps upon startup, age/time on system.
4. I'll take the increased airplane maintenace of a glow plane over the perpetual need to charge lipo batteries any day of the week. Large Lipos scare me. I'm OK with having glow fuel in the garage as I do not need to "watch" it while it sits in the box. I'm not OK with charging large lipo packs and not sitting there and watching them or being close by.
5. In my brush with electric, I spent more time in the charge-battery-cycle of preparation, than I ever did on airplane maintence.
Thanks,
Jim