one of my students just finished his H9 80" cub. I maidened it last sunday. Before the cub, he had about 8 flights on his nexstar and was doing good. but hadn't soloed yet. Sunday we forgot the buddy cable, but i felt confident we could do the TX toss thing. I got his cub up, gave him the controls, he flew it wround then said, i wanna take off. I said OK, landed on gave him the TX. He did a great take off and flew around, i never needed to save him. He goes, i want to try a landing. Now up until this point he has done all his flying and landing on the cable, but never realized this. I said go ahead, land. He came in for approach and did a great landing! I looked at him and said, "you know you just soloed?" He looked at me and said "oh my god!". He didnt realize it was his first flight and landing without a buddy cable or anything. We thought is was very funny.
BTW: he put a saito .56 4 stroke in it, i was doing very low and very very slow passes all day. What a joy to fly after bombing around in my funtana! so relaxing. his cub has a small trim problem, i wont put it here cause i have already started a thread in the ARF/RTF forums, check it out.

sean