Yes John,

The article is OK as far as it goes but does not cover many many aspects of Electric model aviation that are very important!! Read that article and you are nowhere nearly ready to go in the electric model world. Such things as ESC selection and programming, battery requirements (selection, charging, storage and safety) and, of course since it is RC oriented, nothing about timers is not touched on.

Maybe a start but still a long way to go.

Better choices would be Dean Pappas or Will DeMauro...

Bob Hunt

I have already covered almost all of those topics  in my Stunt News columns. I try very hard to keep my columns simple and aimed toward the beginners to ECL and the Sport flyers. I also make it a point to show the budget stuff as well as the high end stuff. Yes there is some budget stuff that works pretty darn good. I also contributed to an Allen Brickhaus article on electric's and cl. This hasn't been published yet and I'm not sure if it was going in FM or MA. If he hasn't sent it in I do have the final draft and I can eventually get it published. What I have asked for in the last few articles that I have written was for somebody to come forward and help me to write an article on the KR timer. I have never used one and know very little about them, but I am always hearing good things here about them. So since this topic came up I will ask here too. Please email or pm me  if you want to help. Another place where most of the beginner stuff is covered is right here. There is more ECL stuff here than anywhere else. There is very little or maybe even nothing that hasn't been covered here. The search engine is your friend. I also answer PM's here and emails as do many others here.