Maybe a "second" plane if you are really good at the first one. I did find two things that make it not so user friendly. Since I fly off grass, the wheel pants make ground handling and taking off a chore. Just when you think you have it heading straight down the runway, one wheel or the other may catch a clump and veer the plane off in a different direction. This happened to me on my last flight, and that is when I discovered #2, If you take off with just enough speed to fly level, but not enough to climb, it will stall quickly, and drop a wing. I had two choices, ram into the soybeans head on, or pull up and climb over, well I chose the climb over, and it cleared, and before I could level off, dropped the left wing. I cut the engine, leveled off and let the soybeans act like a net, so she sat nice and neat on top of the beans. No damage except to my pride. Pretty sure had I just cut throttle and tried to not hit the beans head on, I would have cracked something.

In the LT-40, when you climb out with not enough speed, it just hangs there and slowly drops the nose, so I can see why you would not suggest it as a "second" plane.

Two things I am going to do, pull the pants off, and see if that helps with keeping it straight on take off, and put a different prop on, the one I have on it now is just a hair more than the engine calls for being a 13X8 instead of 13x7. Going to switch to a 12x8 to see if I can get a bit more out of it.


However once up in the air and has speed, it is a really stable plane, my low level passes are rock solid, and I can see just how much stick translates to movement when it flies by, just a touch up and I can see the nose come up, and just a touch rudder or aileron and I can see the movement, unlike the LT-40. Really enjoying this plane, far more than I ever expected. I am so comfortable with it, I am a foot off the ground at full throttle with it.

The FG-11 is slowly breaking in, I noticed my idle is climbing, which made the last two landings HOT. I had to keep trying the final until I got far enough out after chopping throttle to slow down enough for a decent landing, as I didn't want to have a nose over by touching too fast and having the pants catch something. I had to adjust the trim setting on the radio to slow it down some more. It started out with a 2600 idle on the first tank, and crept up to 3600 with the trim all the way down. I got into the sub trim screen on my Futaba and was able to bring the idle back down to 2400 or so.

Last time out I didn't even bother pulling out my other planes, I just grabbed this one and the wing and closed the car. With it being able to fly for about an hour on one tank of fuel, and being so much fun, my other planes will collect dust.