I learnt to fly on my NexSTAR and it did a wonderful job. I trained with the speedbrakes and wingcuffs on but the AFS off. After 2 weeks I removed the speedbrakes and 2 after that the cuffs came off. I have since converted it to a taildragger and removed the dihedryl from the wings. I fly 20 differant airplanes but I still find this one a relaxing flier especially with the mods done. The pic shows my NexSTAR as a dragger with the dihedryl still in. When I removed the dihedryl the plane rolls and flies inverted way better and handles wind a lot better also.