TLDR; I’m joining the fun and I have two (one kit and one PNP) Freeman 2100 on the way.
It took me a while, but I finally finished reading this thread.
As I’ve mentioned in the Fighter 4+1 thread, I purchased a Fighter kit last week from Banggood. When I placed the order for the Fighter kit, I also ordered a Believer kit. I’ve wanted a Believer ever since seeing ArxangelRC’s review of the airplane. My plan was to modify the Believer into a tilt rotor quad plane. I figured the Fighter would help learn how to build and fly a quad plane and I could use what I learn to make my Believer quad plane.
I obviously hadn’t done enough research since I soon learned the Freeman is a modified Believer. I was fortunate that Banggood hadn’t shipped the Believer yet so I cancelled that order and ordered a Freeman kit and “PNP” from AliExpress. From reading this thread, I understand the “PNP” version is really a kit which includes the motors, servos and some electronics.
Thanks to everyone here for sharing their experiences. I feel bad for those of you who have had serious crashes. Thanks for letting us know what happened so we can hopefully avoid the same problems.
In case anyone is interested, I’ve posted some info about my MFE Fighter 4+1 build in this thread. I find these very long threads a bit awkward to navigate and I didn’t want to dilute the excellent information in the main MFE Fighter 4+1 thread so I started a new thread to post my updates and ask questions. I’ll need to figure out where I’ll document my MFE Freeman build. This (excellent) thread is also so long it’s hard to scroll quickly through the thread.