I had an accident with my Avistar ARF (with monokote) and the white covering needs a little patch up. I was planning to use my roll of white monokote. However I noticed that the original covering on my Avistar is definitely thicker than the standard monokote. I would like to confirm if the covering on the avistar is monokote or econokote ? I was informed by a friend that econokote is thicker than monokote. Is this correct ?

Hello rajul ,
I ran into your post.
I may be wrong but I do recall that monokote is used on the Avistar
The thinner one is called econokote and is appx $3.00 cheaper then the thicker rmonokote.
Use what you have.
Heck I use packing tape (the heavy duty tape)
Hope this helps.
Never did much with the more modern covering but I read a lot of material on it

Hi whirleybird, yes the standard monokote is good enough. The reason I posted this is because I wanted to confirm that there is "another" type of monokote which is thicker. I can tell you that the monokote on the avistar is real tough and was able to withstand many abuses. Perhaps Hobbico use a differrent version of monokote specially for their arf's.............

Hi rajul ,
Well if the monokote on the Avistar is so tough how did you tear the wing up?
Wanna tell us what ya did wrong?
Yeah,
The wind gods got it huh?