Interesting discussion. I'm about 1 1/2 seasons into my Avistar flying and have been flying the crap out of it. Now I've been doing good, just had a few crackups along the way. I can hold inverted doing figure eights over the field, shoot touch and goes, loops, having a blast with it. I just shouldn't have tried the low tight figure eights over the field. Lost lift and flew it into the ground. Crash was almost bad enough to just not bother to fix, but I'm having too much fun and it has taught me so much, I'm in the process of fixing it. It will fly again.

So learn and fly the heck out of your Avistar, it can teach you a lot.
Happy flying.

Tom