Hi everyone!

Total newbie here. Today was my first real flight.

The Multiplex Easy Star is pretty much my first plane.

-We'll ignore the very first plane I had which I gave to a friend who converted it to gas. I was a little ambitious and flush with cash that day.

-The second plane which I bought on a whim for spare parts for the first (which is currently being rebuilt to serve as an upgrade to my Multiplex.)

-And, my third. A failed attempt to assemble my own plane from scratch (don't do that without help when you are a newbie.)

Anyhow. I LOVE my Easy Star. It went together in about 4 hours. Yesterday, my friend and I took it down the street to the local high score just to trim it out.

Today, tho, I logged over 60 minutes of flight time. My first landing attempt went poorly and I slammed it into the side of a brick school building nose first. The plane held together like a real champion.

We didn't have to do anything to it in order to put it back in the air! Nothing at all. And, I hit the building hard. A little glue and some light sanding and you'd never know I ran it into a brick wall.

This thing is really easy to fly. I climb it up and out and can turn off the motor and just cruise around for a while.

When feeling a little more creative - you can run it over half throttle for about 7-8 minutes and over 10 and as much as 15 with trying to conserve. This thing will coast like a sailplane might (not that I've ever flown a sailplane, but I've seen the videos).

As a total newbie, I love this plane. I never felt like it would get away from even when the wind was blowing.

My friend even did a perfectly executed loop with it.

I can't compare it to other newbie planes because my first plane was out of my league and I underestimated it entirely.

I had a really great time. So much I went back to the store and got 2 more batteries and a new charger. It's one of the biggest entry-level planes you can buy, or so I am told. This makes it easy to see.

If you are a newbie and have access someone who has at least been around airplanes before to help you assemble and trim out --- you'll love this plane.

I'd still be outside flying and charging forever if my friend didn't have to go.

If I could change something,I'd like to have a better situation for the prop. It's just glued on. I didn't have any problems with it but it seems it could be better designed. I'd also prefer a servo tray rather than taping them and gluing the tape to the side of the airplane. Didn't have any problems with this either.

This is a great newbie plane. Period.

Vahn