The NexStar is a fine choice, but do yourself a favor. While practicing on the sim don't ever even fly it with the AFS on. If you do you'll wanna use it when you fly for real & then you'll find that it doesn't work the way it does on the sim, & you might just find yourself in a world of doo-doo faster than you can recover from. Trust me been there & allmost crashed that! Since turning it off I've found that I can fly it successfully, & more importantly I can land it now too as often as I wish. It has much better landing gear than my Tower IMO & has very good ground handling manners. Now I'm not bashing the Tower Trainer by any means, it is perfectly good airplane, but I'm old & the NexStar just seems to be an easier gentle flying plane for me personally. I hope that going to an 11x6 prop on the Tower from the 10x8 that it comes with might help because as I get better it will be my practice plane for learning new things. If I crash it I allready have a nice ARF in mind to put all the gear & engine in as a transition plane before I do my Venture 60 project.

Bill, Bruce do me a favor and take a look at this link for me, I'd interested in your opinions of this plane before I try to move on to the Venture 60. Thanks in advance.

http://www.airborne-models.com/html/...p?ProductID=50


Mark

P.S. Of course I'll be getting the Red, White, & Blue one, but you knew that!