ORIGINAL: Luchnia
Sometimes it just does not seem right that we are paying the quoted price for the RC planes and yet we have to re-do so much of them to get them to work as they are designed to work. What is wrong with this picture?
There's the rub!
The "quoted" price is often reduced as much as possible using low cost manufacturing and labor processes.
Were ARFs manufactured the same way Kit Builders put together their planes, the costs would be at least an order of magnitude higher.
I don't see paying around $1,000.00 for a .40 size ARF do you?
I find $240.00 for the same exhorbitant.... so I resign myself to trying to pay around $100.00 instead.
For that price I know I WILL have to add some TLC before flight....