No Bruce I wasn't trying to imply that anyone on this thread had said anything bad about the Nexstar. I apologize if it sounded that way. But, I have read several other Nexstar threads that were not nearly as fair to what I consider a top notch trainer.

Both of my Nexstars needed about 5 or 6 turns more throw on the ailerons before my instructor was comfortable flying it. But other than that they flew excellent right out of the box. The speedbrakes and my inexperience cost me shipping to try the guarantee. With the speedbrakes on you don't get any prop wash over the elevator or rudder, so you don't have any control near stall speed. My replacement never had them installed. About a week after I soloed I took the airfoil extensions off.

I now have the throws maxed out on the ailerons, and nearly maxed on the rudder and elevator. It flies knife-edge better than my Arresti-40 did, with enough opposite aileron to counter the roll coupling on the rudder. It does outside loops, hammerheads, immelmans, and split S'es. I have moved on to more advanced planes but this one is still fun to fly. I am now running a ST 40 on it because of problems with the OS, but it still performs at least as good as an LT-40 with an OS 46.