RE: Benefits of giant scale?
It's much harder to fly a scale model in a scale-type manner than to simply "burn holes in the sky" with a sport model. Maybe that's it. Your comment on the IMAC types is well spoken. Those planes are easy to make do what they do because they're designed to do it. Now, before the IMAC types jump me, I'm NOT saying they're easy to fly in a scale-type manner well. I am saying if you just want it to look fairly good and not win meets or anything, that IS easy. A scale model sorta gives you a criteria to fly by, I guess. I remember a guy in our club who shoehorned a 1.20 into a GP Cub. It had a takeoff roll of 5' and vertical capability. Waste of a good Cub, IMO.