What size glow engine/plane should I get if I want to use it for park flying? I have been doing electric and I hate the waiting in between flights. Plus when I occasionally go to fields it stinks to only get 1 to 2 flights it.

You can't/shouldn't fly glow planes in the same airspace as a park flyer. You are going to need more room to fly a glow powered plane as they are usually bigger and faster than the park flyers you are now flying.

Ken

Ken is right glow power and parks where dogs and people roam just won't make for a good mix in todays lawsuit happy world..You are a member of the AMA aren't you?

I live near a park with 4 baseball diamonds facing eachother in a big rectangle with no fences plus no one is on the field.

This area isn't large enough to fly even a small glow powered plane. I guess that this is also located in a residential area too. So then you have a risk of the plane going out of control and damaging property or injuring somebody. To try to fly a glow plane in such a small confined area is just asking for trouble and shouldn't even be considered.

Ken

So you are talking about 600 to 700 foot square?
Maybe something in the 1/2A size, check out the 1/2A forum.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/forumid_70/tt.htm
The other thing is will the park allow you to fly glow engines there?

Buy more batteries and a better charger.

I've got an Ace Whizard lined up as a winter project. I was planning on flying it at the club fields, but hoped that it might be slow enough with a Thunder Tiger GP-07 to fly in smaller, convenient spaces. What is the minimum recommended flying area for an experienced pilot to fly a 1/2A trainer?

my suggestion for size of a field is as follows: any club field will do..to risk injury while flying in a park is opening yourself up to big time trouble....even a small glow engine is spinning a prop with enough force to make serious cuts

I agree, I tried flying at a local park, had plenty of room, but as soon as I pulled out a shiny plane, I was surrounded by kids. This is not a bad thing as it`s cool to see thier eyes light up and all the questions, lol But 1 adult , a handful of young kids and a Nitro plane in a park setting, is not a good thing.
So I fly my Typhoon there and fly my nitro in a more controlled environment .

A 1/2 A plane with something like a Cox .049 is almost the equivilent of a small electric but the noise might irritate people. I have a Cox .020 powered Pocket Rocket that could easily be flown in the confines of a schoolyard but is sounds like the world's most pissed off bumblebee.

Before electrics and "park flyers" there was 1/2A and "schoolyard flyers".