ORIGINAL: XTOL
The PTS as supplied flies terrible. It has a 3 blade 9 X 3 prop
and you have to run full throttle just to keep it in the air.
It is so unresponsive that its difficult to fly.
The landing gear is very fragile. It folds up quite easily on
anything but a soft landing. Exactly what you DONT want
in a primary trainer.
Now if you take all the training aids off it and replace that prop
with an APC 11 X 5 and take that two ounce steel flywheel
off of it and rebalance the thing flies pretty well. But then
its not a trainer any more.
Mike Hammer
Well once again I have to disagree about this. My 9 yr old son learned on the PTS P-51 over a yr ago & is still going strong. We did put a 10x6 3 blade prop on it & took off the trainer stuff but this is one Great plane to learn on & after a while you can speed it up. Find a Good Instructor to help you & have a ball with it.