If you want the 9c and can afford it and figure it out on your own, go for it, but as an instructor -- don't bring it around for me to figure out for you. I spend my time teaching you to FLY and if we aren't doing that I want the time to fly my own planes. I also have the hard head thought that I'm not interested in spending all our time tuning your plane -- there are to many loffers sitting around giving advice that can help tune as they WON'T teach just *****.
Don't get me wrong - I do all those things when needed but it better be limited as I have a life also. I've been teaching for 25+ years and if there is anything that will turn me off real quick, it's someone that went out and bought that SUPER duper what ever and then wants me to spend my life figguring it out for them. I don't even figure out the remote for my wife, if she wants to use it -- figure it out.
I've seen to many good instructors spend WAY to much time setting up things up for someone, only to have them take it home and PLAY with it and get it all screwed up, then want the instructor to fix it again. ( or crash because they did someting and didn't say anything about it )
You say that's what an instructor is for --- I say BS. They taught me to DRIVE not fix the car or tune the radio.

Now if you want the 9c - go for it, but while you are learning LEAVE it in the BASIC mode.


rc ken -- you thought you had a band stand -- HA !!!!! ENJOY !!! RED