trying to decide between these two, which do you prefer (if you have flown both)? Both look nice.

I have flown both; the impact is great airplane, but I preffered the OTOP. A lot less to get it finished, and I prerfered the way it flew right out of the box. You can't go wrong with the OTOP.

Haven't flown the impact but have flown the otop. It flies great and does not break. So the Otop would be the way to go if you can still find one. They have been discontinued. Met the munufacturer in Thailand and he said they will have a couple of new pattern plane coming out in the next three months. Might be worth waiting for.

Depends on your level of flying.

If you are flying the latest F3A schedules the IMPACT is a much much better design to fly these schedules. The model flies very well on it's side and has all the rudder authority you need for rollers and rolling loops.

The OTOP flies very well if you fly the intermediate schedules were you need a model that flies like an arrow.

A friend of mine flies an OTOP and I fly the IMPACT. I have had the opportunity to study the fly characteristics of both and I have no doubt the IMPACT is the pick if you are at the F3A level. I know my mate with the OTOP was quite impressed when he flew mine.

The IMPACT on the other hand needs some extra building to ensure it does not fall apart. This has been covered in great detail elsewhere on this forum.


Good Luck


Peter

Interesting to hear that the otop is being discontinued. Any news on what its replacement is like?? Any pictures from pre-production??

I was going to buy an otop in the next few weeks but may well hold off if there is shortly to be a new replacement.

cheers!

James

I was in Thailand last week to judge the 1st Asian Aeromodeling F3A Championship and I spoke with one of the VPs of Extreme Composite who joined the contest. He said that the only complaint about the Otop is that it is a bit smaller than the latest 2 meter designs but the advantge is that it would fly on the older 120/140 engines. It will be replaced with a bigger modified version. Also, they will be making a new US design in both electric and glow versions. This is a design by a known US flier and will be flown at the Nats. Thats about all I know at the moment.

That's great news. The biggest drawback I saw to the OTOP was that it wasn't what I would consider to be a newer style widebody. When I looked at it at Planes Plus we did some measurements and it had the same gurth as the Temptation. The price and the quality were up to snuff for sure. Robert's is down right beautiful with the custom paint scheme.
I hope that the new design is in a price range similar to the OTOP. We need this. All in all good stuff for sure. Mike

I agree. I hope the new airplane stays in a similar price range. The thing that impressed
me with my OTOP is everything fit perfectly and the airplane is dead on straight. It flew for
the first time with no trim changes. The only thing I've changed since then is to lessen the
aileron throws. Very nice quality control.

tommy s