I like everything about nitro except buying the fuel and occasionally having a fussy or picky engine.
I hated everything about electric. I like to fly for 10min+. I hate 4min flight times. I was never satisfied with the power. With nitro you can fly WOT for 8min and the engine doesn’t give a crap. Tank after tank. Can’t do that with E.
the lack of noise, or rather a completely different noise I don’t like either. Wulfie always made fun of me for putting piped two strokes on everything I could but there’s no sound or throttle response E can compete with like a CCP.
I hate buying and keeping up with a dozen packs and yes it takes that many to give me the flight time I want per session and then I have to recharge all those and keep up with their voltage and all that. It’s not hard but it’s a pain.
some people like to say E has more power. Sure, it can on top but by my viewpoint E HAS to have more power because you can’t fly around at 3/4-full throttle. Your plane has to do most of what it does at half throttle. Sure it’s the same for nitro but when you’re really in a groove and getting nasty with it you spend a lot of time at or near WOT. E is for low and slow with the occasional ADHD twitch.
I could go on for days and reminisce about the pros of nitro vs e. I believe I have here a time or four. E works for some. It just doesn’t suit my style. Just like a fatty extra just doesn’t suit my needs and expectations. I need an edge or slick to wad up into a burr to make me giggle.
Here you go, plug. A nitro CCP beat down on the best slap ever designed. This old slab by this point had its wing ripped off twice. Once in a mid air and the next doing WOT wing tip KE touch n goes at nash. The tail was loose as a goose and so was the covering from nitro soak. It was over 5lbs at this point. The old thundertiger 46 was almost worn slick out. It wouldn’t start without a healthy prime and a starter but by hell once it did it ripped. Until it and I meet again in Valhalla 🤘🏻
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