This is not true. We have had five students successfully fly the NexSTAR, three so far have solo'ed without any problems other than the typical new student stuff, landing gear bend during hard landings, broken props, and so on, but nothing like this. Our instructors (we have several) all think very highly of the plane.

There has to be some issue, one of the above, perhaps a combination of the above. One thing we did was to make sure that, as one person suggested, make sure that the mechanical advantage for the nose-gear linkage is set to minimum so that it does not over-react suring take-off. If it's an ARF, insure that there is not to much thrust angle (or not enough) in all appropriate directions. We have a 70 year old gent that is learning with the NexSTAR. Aside from his slow reaction times, he is doing just fine. The usual broken prop and gear issues on landing (as I already said), but he is doing just fine.

Hang in there.

DS.