ORIGINAL: PA BEN
I learned with this plane as my first plane with a good instructor. Take offs I learned fast it flew great. So how meny of you who had this "trainer" for your first plane broke the landing gear? It does not land like a trainer. You can bounce a high wing trainer and not break the landing gear. Bounce your pts and your fixing it.
I've never broken the gear blocks.
Of course I wicked in thin CA extensively before installing the gear too, which is SOP for me.
I've had 3 of these planes and have had many hard bounces. Typically the gear splay out or the wire bends, but that's about it.
H9 should re-inforce the gear blocks as you've stated... they should also do this with most of their planes too, then again so should most other vendors.