ORIGINAL: BaldEagel
The H9 P51 PTS is not a crap shoot, please talk from experience not what you think, I have fown and trained on this aircraft (30 years an instructor) and can recommend it highly the transition to a low wing aircraft using the system devised by H9 is non existant, with the buddy box system the progress made by the ab-initio's is far faster than it ever used to be with the standard high wing trainer, there will always be those that cannot cope with an aircraft other than a high wing trainer, but these are now rare and far between.
Go to your chosen club, see what they train on, use there trainer aircraft, most every club has one, if they do not have ther own training aircraft, find another club they obviously do not take training seriously, get some hrs in, lots of landings and take offs loosing control up high your instructor will cope, loosing control on landing or take off the instructor will be with you on the controls, once you have confidence in what you are flying, move on to somthing else if its radical go back on the buddy box, don't feel ashamed of asking for help. I still ask for second opinions on my craft before a first flight and sometimes have a second experienced pilot with me on the patch to help with orientation and posible flight problems on a new craft.
Compliments of the season to all.
Mike
I presume that little dissertation was pointed at me.
BaldEagle (fellow well experienced instructor), with respect, we dissagree. As you certainly know, there are more than a few students who have their drawers full handling a standard trainer, and plenty more who think that they are born fighter pilots. They certainly can't tell how well they will progress until they actually try flying, but invariably some helpfull soul will "advise" them about what to get for their first plane.
For you, me, or any experienced pilot &/or instructor, the H9 PTS Mustang is a walk in the park -- but you & I aren't the students -- we are the instructors, with a responsibility to advise with care. Given the unknown tallent in any student, I think that it is imprudent to talk them into anything other than a model type that will give them the greatest chance for success. The standard RC trainer is a well proven concept. The H9 'stang, however pretty, is not yet in that category.