Wayne,

I am into my second Scanner now, its a really nice plane to fly as an entry into low wing. The plane has no nasty habits at all and will come in well dead stick. Landings are with ease as the plane tracks well, it does not bleed speed off that fast so it will be easy to judge landings ... inverted flight is simple with just a little down elevator. However, the plane will not roll that fast (its fast enough) and spirals are not something you wanna do too many of ... just a few rounds (3-4 max) is all you can do before you are too near the ground, recovery is easy however.

Building wise there is nothing to reinforce or modify. Just remember to add a wood block (its supplied) to guide the front nose wheel steering wire. Drill a hole through the balsa block supplied and then glue the block about 1/2 to 2/3 way back between F2 (2nd firewall) and the servo arm. Also, fixing the Ele and Rud lingkage/pushrod is a pain in the arse ... just go slow and get the angles correctly ... patience will make the linkage function nicely ... Oh yes ... you will need to cut away a little bit of F3 as the Ele pushrod will touch it, just a little 'V' shaped trim only.

The plane will balance spot on with a TT46, I guess any 46 will be fine. You will enjoy that plane a lot ... I fly mine with a real cheapo controller, something for me to trash about. Run it with a 11 x 6 for a start, you will enjoy the torque and a 10 x 6 will give you decent speed. Its not a very fast plane on a 46 with a 10 x 6, just fast enough.

Have fun!!!