Thats totally what I thihk also. I doubt if I will ever want to have a fully loaded military heavy jet, where I live it would be silly. Only short grass fields unless you drive 8 to 10 hours.

I started getting the jet "bug" from reading Schreckling and Kamp's books years ago. They allways had pictures of "basic trainer" type planes and the fun was jet power, not necessarily a scale military jet zooming at a scale mach III.

I think as more people get turbines, there will be more of the sport wood/foam planes and thats great. When I fly my Reaper its just as though I am flying any other of my planes, but it sounds different and has a certain "fun" aspect a prop plane cannot give.

I think most guys into jets see things differently due to being ONLY into jets.

For those like me that like all kinds of sport planes, having a turbine "trainer" is just another sport plane I take and fly like any other. That is cool, and since things are so reliable and "easy" now (I dont need any help setting up and getting ready to fly, allthough I do allways use a helper just in case) its not any harder in my opinion than setting up a big gasser or even a glow engine plane.

AJC