I've had nitro and lecky, personally I'd have lecky 99% of the time as can use it anywhere, even in the house, though me lecky rc copters got me a few good slaps off gf for marks on the table legs, I said it was "collateral damage", she said "so's this" and smnakcked me on the head with a frying pan she was drying!!
Lecky is just so much less fuss, good leckys can be awsome fast, swap the NICD for some NIMH, I used a 6 cell holder and 6 AA nimh, about 1/4 the weight anmd twice the ah than ni cd packs!!
tabetha