How do the metal flakes fly?
I have one Metal Flake Champion Destroyer, red, 171g. It has never thrown, so I took it, along with a pile of other Destroyers, to the local ball field to compare flights.
Weather conditions:
300 ft elevation, 10 mph wind, 80 degrees F
I threw 18 destroyers. They were:
1 Metal Flake Champion Destroyer 171g, new
9 Avery Jenkins 3 Line Star Destroyers 168, 170, 171g, only two of these had been thrown before.
3 Paul McBeth Star Destroyers 171, 172g, all new
3 Philo Brathwaite Tour Series Destroyers 167, 168g, new
2 Pro Destroyers, both 169g, both slightly beat in
I threw each disc 3 times, twice with the wind at about 5:00 (slight tailwind), and once with the wind at direct 12:00 headwind.
Results:
The Pro Destroyers get the easiest distance from both directions, out to about 410 ft for me, which is about as much as I expect to get generally right now. They had some pretty significant high speed turn into the relatively small headwind.
The Brathwaite Destroyers bomb pretty well too. These felt fast compared to all the others, perhaps because they were slightly less weight than all the others. I could immediately use one of the 167g Brathwaites as a max distance disc if I wanted to. You should not expect much skip from these.
The Metal Flake Destroyer was consistently next best for distance, just slightly better than the Star Destroyers. It is pretty beefy for my arm, though(I was only throwing it about 375 ft). It gets a pretty good skip when thrown low. This MF disc had the most dome of all that I threw here.
The AJ and PM Star Destroyers were pretty much all beef for my arm. Two of the AJ discs that I threw here have been used off and on for two years, and they would still need a whole lot more beating in before they could be counted on as max distance drivers for me. The PM Star plastic looks better than the AJ plastic; shiny.
One more thing, as people have probably stated before, The AJ Destroyers generally seem to have more of a dome than the PM ones, which are generally pretty flat. Because of this, the PMs appeared to have a bit less glide, and were a bit less affected by the headwind.
Hope this helps.
