Dorsil,

You are definitely ready to move up. You may want to take it easy as the NextStar was not designed for that kind of flying and your risking not only the airframe, but a perfectly good engine and radio. Save it for the next plane that will handle that kind of flying.

Don't think just because you move up it's time to retire the NextStar. I really enjoy shooting touch-n-go's and climbing it up until it’s a just a spec, kill the engine and see how long I can keep it up there. And, the plane will stay aloft on a strong thermal. As you fly aerobatics, it still a lot of fun to just slowly poke around the field on occasion spend some time seeing how slow you can fly or keep a plane up while dead stick.


Hogflyer