The one thing that I have learned in the short time I've been (back) in this hobby is to remember to be humble! I have an ultra-sport that I "rescued" and had one of the instructors at the field take it up for the first time (at our field). Good thing too, because the one thing I didn't check was the incidence of the horizontal stab. I guess I figured that nobody could screw up attaching a stab to an ARF that way.

All this plane wanted to do was climb! It took all the down trim I had to keep it controllable, and even then past 3/4 throttle down the elevator had to be held to keep the plane level. I surely would have put it in.

Back to my shop I found 2 degrees (positive?) incidence in the tail. Took about an hour to build up the courage to rip the tail off to correct it.

I am still waiting for the snow to clear to test the ultra Sport again (I don't think this plane will fly well with skis ) , but you can be sure that I will have an instructor with me. I will probably have him do the 1st takeoff and landing, and then have him by my side to talk me through my 1st attempts. Since this plane owes me nothing, I will probably fly this one for a month or two before the AT-6, to build up some low wing experience. I know from the G2 simulator that the AT-6 and the ultra-sport fly differently, but I expect that there are some skills that will transfer over.