I instruct at my club and a member came in with one. I had never used one for instructing we mostly use Avistars. Well it worked out great. I have to say it's very impressive as a trainer. It will handle a lot more wind than you would imagine. This one had just rudder and it flew just fine. It had a super Tiger 40 on it and as I remember it took a lot of weight to get the balance right. We also ended up with a 12/4 prop which kept it slow but with plenty of thrust. We had tricycle gear and the only problem with that was when it got windy it wanted to tip over in a cross wind.Got hard to taxie. This student was quit old and it took a long time to train him,but hes doing just fine now and I believe he still has his Kadet. PS. In all the training ( over 3 gallons of fuel) the kadet was never damaged. Good plane !