Balls of steel...........not any more. I used to be pretty gutsy when I started flying back in 1987, but with age has come more caution.......plus, I BUILD my airplanes. I wouldn't buy an ARF or a RTF if you gave them away. Now, don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people out there that don't like to build, don't have any patience, or are loaded$$$ and can afford to buy these ARFs and that's fine for them, and only fair too. But, when I started building and flying , building was a huge part of the hobby for a lot of people. When I take an airplane out for the first time to fly, after many hrs, wks of building time, it is a huge moment. The anticipation of that first test flight on something that you built instead of something you bought thatbwas cranked out of an assembly line is huge. A real sense of accomplishment is achieved when the plane flies straight and level without much trim needed. You guys that don't build are missing out on this, and that's too bad. But it's never too late to get in on it. Even if its a trainer, the feeling is the same. I built it, I'm flying it, and most of the time it doesn't look like anything that anybody has, because after building a few, you tend to add your own touches here and there that make it unique and your own. I hope people that read this don't think I am knocking the guys that would rather not build, it's just that I think they are missing out on what used to be the meat of our hobby.