RE: Bipe good for a 2nd plane?
I forgot all about my Tiger Moth but yes, it did fly like my Cub. That's the only one I can remember that floated around like A trainer. I have and have had A bunch of Bipes and none of them would be A good second plane, more like A forth or fifth plane really. I have never had any problems dead stick landing one but I had A lot of stick time on other planes before I flew my first Bipe.
The killer was scratch building A nice Krier Kraft, took 8 or 9 months then spent all the summer getting it in perfect trim. I was showing off with it one day and had it over on it's side going to drop into the landing strip, went just A little too slow and it went into A snap spin. It spun for 200 feet before it hit, I had to watch it all while I was trying to get it to recover.
I do love my bipes though, just A real pain to haul to the field so these days they stay home A lot. [)]