I've been flying the Avistar a lot at the club field and loving every minute of it. What a great airplane!

I finally flew it at home tonight with flaperons, the muffler baffle removed and an APC 10x6 prop. It will take off very short and land pretty slow with the flaperons. It's really tight quarters even though I've enlarged the landing strip some more, but I've become very comfortable flying this plane and the weather was just about perfect so I just had to try it. I did two takeoffs and landings without incident, but it was tricky. I'm sure there are better planes to do this with as has been suggested. But it can be done.