<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Yup - a little bigger than a Shocky too. And it's foam. "Mistakes" are easy to fix. That's important when you're trying to lean new stuff. The little wooden "Pattern" planes are great but most of the ones I've seen are either :</DIV>
<DIV>A. Too small to fly like a "real" Pattern plane.</DIV>
<DIV>B. Too large to fly in a small, confined area.</DIV>
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<DIV>There are of course exceptions but generally airplanes like the Fliton Prodigy, Quiet Storm, E-Flite Brio 10 etc. tend to require more space than a foamy and they don't really fly like a full-size Pattern plane any more than a good foamie does. The Fliton stuff is pretty light but that makes it kind of fragile too. I have a Prodigy and while it does track REALLY well for a plane of it's size, it has it's limits AND it's quite a bit faster than a foamie so you do need some space to fly it in. I still believe the best bang for the buck is an Ikarus Shock Flyer F3A. I've had several since they came out - let's face it, foamies don't last FOREVER! Every one has been a good flyer. Pick up a Shocky. You won't be disappointed. Fly it indoors or out. Bring it to Pattern contests for foamie wars. You'll get your money's worth. Just try to keep it around 6 oz. or less RTF.</DIV>
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<DIV>John Pavlick</DIV>
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<DIV>BTW - Dean Funk also makes some cool Black Magic foamies. Check out RCU for some of his stuff.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 10/10/08, Richard Strickland <I><pamrich47@hotmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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With a little re-work here and there, a Formosa doesn't totally suck for the money--and sort of looks like a pattern airplane...<BR>RS<BR><BR>> From: jnhiller@earthlink.net<BR>> To: nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:23:14 -0700<BR>> Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Park Flier suppliment<BR>> <BR>> Good morning all. Thanks for the input.<BR>> I am reviewing your replies this morning and appreciate the help. I don't<BR>> want to give up on the AMA 2 pound 'Park Flier' but I probably have room to<BR>> fly a larger / faster airplane. My park is a triangle about 150M on a side.<BR>> Enter these coordinates 47.7647,-117.395149 in http://maps.google.com/ for<BR>> an aerial view.<BR>> I really want an outside airplane as I plan to just walk to the park with a<BR>> couple batteries in my pocket when I get a nice day and work on inverted<BR>> rudder commands. I am getting it wrong most of the time
and the flight<BR>> deteriorates badly.<BR>> I had no idea that the batteries would actually cool excessively while in<BR>> use in cold weather and need to be insulated.<BR>> My flying buddy who is now learning the advanced schedule has a Brio and<BR>> speaks highly of it. I will have him bring it in when he is in town and try<BR>> it out. My local hobby shop owner has a ParkZone Typhoon2 3D RTF, which I<BR>> also want to try. Has anyone flown pattern with the ParkZone Typhoon?<BR>> Thanks<BR>> Jim Hiller<BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> NSRCA-discussion mailing list<BR>> NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion<BR><BR><BR>
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