Which kit?
 

Here the thing: a friend of mine has 2 years of training/experience on a trainer plane. He's done everything possible thing with it, including loops, twists, inverted flights

Now he wants a step up the ladder. We looked for a suitable succesor kit, and came across these 3 model:

Great Planes Easy Sport .40
Great Planes Dazzler
Great Planes Tracer .40

According to the mfg, all planes have "excellent aerobatics capability", yet are easy to handle...

Which one should he get ? Prices are about the same, and all would accept the OS .46 engine he currently ownes.

Which kit?
 

Hi Dazzler,

What does your friend want to do? These are 3 distinctly different planes. Any of them can just fly around the circuit, but they tend to be specialized for particular types of flying.

The Easy Sport is a "sport plane". It probably flies the most like the trainer of these 3, but it should be faster and more manuverable. I've flown a few of these, and the .46FX is a fine engine for it.

The Dazzler is a "fun fly", and is good at doing 3D type manuvers, very tight loops, fast rolls, exremely short takeoff an landing rolls. Most people I see with fun flies, keep them very close in and do wild aerobatics low and near the runway. I've flown a few of these, and again, the .46FX would be plenty of engine.

The Tracer is a "pattern plane". It's designed to do competition aerobatics, like stall turns, cuban eights, humpty bumps, etc. I've only flown a Tracer once (did the maiden flight for someone), but I don't remember what engine it had. Lots of the pattern manuvers call for long vertical climbs and descents. Depending on the weight of the plane, a .46FX may not be the best engine. You may want something a little more, or maybe a 4 stroke (to help keep it a bit slower on vertical descents.)

I hope this helps,
-Wade

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I would have to agree with WadeH. Personally, I'd take the Dazzler. The easy sport is a great first or second plane. Don't know much about the tracer.

The OS .46FX would be an excellent mate for all three.

Hope that helps...

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I also agree with WadeH.

Tell your friend to avoid the Tracer. It is a more advanced plane. I would recommend:

The Easy Sport if he wants to do aerobatics, (this plane is not a trainer, it is an aerobatics trainer, and an IDEAL second step.

Or the Dazzler, if he wants to start learning more radical (3-D Type) maneuvers