I too fly large & small, the small models being mostly electric & unmatched for convienience. I have a heap of batteries for a large, multi engined electric (which uses 3 x 3 cell packs) so it's good to give these packs some excercise now & then. Just take 3 or 4 charged packs with you & it's plug & play, all I take is model & transmitter case with batteries.

BUT, there is less thrill factor. This hobby to me is like a drug & I seem to need more & more, bigger & better. Once you get a taste for the bigger models everything changes. This way of thinking is repeated a lot in this thread http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_9752556/tm.htm

A friend who flys turbine jets warned me that once you fly a jet everything else will not seem the same. Yeah, yeah I thought, he's just saying that. Until I bought one....................

John.