Yeah - I don't really plan on standing behind it - I did my little hop yesterday from the side view - I don't feel that I have a problem percepting the orientation of the levelness. It didn't just take off on it's own - I gave it some elevator - then it just came up faster than I anticipated and it was going a lot faster than I thought too. I have a huge lot that I use to fly my heli's at just a few blocks away - no trees, powerlines etc. (pedestrians)...Theres a road that runs by it - I am thinking my plan after yesterdays experience will be to take off using the road - then walk into the field circle around a bit until I get where I want to be - there's a nice strip of pretty short grass with a nice flat spot - then I will practice approaches till I get down around 10-20 feet high and go around for another few passes - once I get the feel for it - I'll attempt a landing. I think this is a reasonable flight plan for my first flight. I won't do any wild turns or anything crazy - just nice and easy. I've flown planes before - just not a "real" one - not one with control surfaces...I flew a lot of the Aero Aces - (Air Hogs), they just turn my speeding or slowing one of the motors - then myneighbor has a firebird commander - that has a V-tail on the back - two rudder like control surfaces - He can't fly it for crap, but I've flown it 3 times and I haven't had any problems with it at all (Safe Mode Disabled) - I can do whatever with that. I realize that ther's a lot more to my plane than his, and my previous experience isn't gong to cover everthing, but I think I'll be able to handle it - I may attempt a first flight in a little bit, or I might wait until tomorrow - debating on whether I should wait for the 15% nitro, instead of using the 30% I have it her right now.