I don't agree that the Ultra Stick is a perfect 2nd plane. It is a good first plane (realy good instructor needed), a perfect 2nd plane, a perfect 3rd plane, a perfect nth plane. I don't care how advanced you get in your flying skills and how advanced your follow-on aircraft get. You should always have the stick parked in your hanger somewhere real handy because you'll need it when it's too windy for other airplanes, your just not 100% but still want to fly, you need to safely practice a complex maneuver, or you just like to burn up the sky. There isn't another airplane that has its capabilities and still maintains a MILD MANNER flight envelope. It can be a roaring tiger or a floating feather it is born to be engine overpowered but you still can enjoy flying it on its lowest engine recommendations.

My next Ultra Stick: Ultra Stick Lite 120 (Evolution 25GX -or- Zenoa 26 Elect Ign -or- ????) Whatever gas engine that works and I can afford.

1: Ultra Stick 120 -w- OS FX 1.60 (I had 4 of these, fell of horses, got back on)
2: Joss Stick -w- OS BX1 (1.08)
3: Ultra Stick 60 -w- Saito FA-100
4: E-Flight Ultra Stick Electric -w- Parkflight 480
5: Joss Stick -w- OS BX1 (1.08)