Writing and maintaining this blog to hopefully serve as a POV from a Noob customer who has built many EF planes across all available sizes except for 9X. If you are new to 3D and looking at EF, or considering certain planes, this may help you.

First to be clear, I am a big fan. EF is a great company that makes some of the best performing 3D planes across all sizes, so congrats, you can’t go wrong buying EF!

Selecting Your First Plane:

Tip 1: if you are new to 3D, start with a 60 Electric, especially a 60 Edge. The undercarriage seems to be built to take a hammer hit, and you will likely have more than your share of bad landings if you are new to 3D. Smaller size planes are cheaper but they will break more easily. And unless you have great repair skills you will compound your challenge.

Tip 2: If you are not comfortable with or cannot afford a 60 electric or you know your 3D skills are really really Nooby, go with something like a Twisted Hobbys 43 Veloxity. It’s airfoiled well, is a small enough size to fly at smaller fields, and repairs will be easier and cheaper. Ofcourse you can start with something like a 32 inch MXS-C from Twisted Hobbys to get your stick movements in the right direction and coordinated but it will not transfer well to balsa. The 43 inch Veloxity is more than half way there.

Ordering Parts for a Plane:

Tip 3: Don't blindly use the order configuration on the EF website. For two reasons. First its not always right,...Continue Reading