What can I say, it flies as well as it looks! It took me a little while (3 flights) to get comfortable with the power, at 12S it has plenty of reserve and you can comfortably fly at a few clicks above 1/2 throttle. Lines are straight and true and it really reacts nice to control movements. Like others have noted there is a slight pull to the canopy on edge but easily corrected, I have a little more up trim then I'd like, still playing around with CG but so far it flies like it's on rails.

My overal impression is this is a winner, paying only $650 for a $1,500 pattern plane that is a few years old was a bargain, the only drawback is the amount of work required to complete it. After taking a look around at current models, most are 90% ready to go, with wing tubes, alignment pins and such all pre-drilled and mounted. Though this may seem a small detail, spending 70 hours of time you may not have can be expensive if it comes at the expense of something else you could be (or need to be) doing, the bargain is in the eye of the beholder so to speak.

Would I do it again, yes, if nothing else to make it 100% perfect and this time mount incidence adjusters on the stabs per Malcolm's recommendation. The work really gets tedious, especially fitting the carbon pins in the carbn tubes but in the end it's worth it. This plane will go a long way in helping transition my flying skills from intermediate into pattern competition, hopefully it will last years and give me hundreds of flights...

Jack