I've never had one, but did get to watch a guy fly one once. It was pretty much as Britbrat described. He was constantly telling me what a terrible flying thing it was as he flew the snot out of it! I was kind of thinking " how can I tell" he was really putting it threw it's paces & looked to be having no problem with it, but like I said he never stopped commenting on how badly it was behaving. He was obviously a very experienced flyer, so I tend to believe it's just like Britbrat said, a great exercise plane for an allready accomplished flyer, but I sure wouldn't want to try to learn how to fly all over again on one![:@]