I'm a university professor - I teach computer engineering. I do some consulting work involving UAVs. The consulting money pays the jet bills. I have 2 jets RTF and my son Louie has a 3rd jet RTF. I'm working on a Fly Eagle Rafale EDF right now for next season and have a scratch-built Ziroli Panther for a turbine that should also be flying for next season. The consulting money has gone down some in the past year, so that, and the fact that I'm a bit burned out on ARF's, has led me back to building.

I usually fly my jet on average two weekends a month. Our local field is not really the best for jets as its fairly rough grass, but we have several other places to fly off of hard surface, but they are 1-2 hours drive.

Carefully consider your decision to go electric vs. turbine. Large EDFs take a bit more technical expertise to get working right (I'm no expert myself for sure) and the cost of the batteries make them not much (if any) cheaper than turbines - especially if you don't treat the batteries well and they die on you (fairly easy to do).

Bob