It is a wonderful trainer. I've been training on it, 18 flights so far. It flys very good, handles nice. I'll tell ya, that plane is very sturdy and can take the beating a student will put on it ; Lets just say theirs this one loner tree out to the east by the road, my instructor was explaining to me a landing, and went right into the tree, it hit a branch and dropped. I ran out to the tree expecting to see my Nexi (Thats what me and my dad nicknamed it) into a million pieces - I finally got to the plane, I picked it up - IN ONE PIECE ! After carefully looking over it, I later saw a small hole in the upper left of the windshield, nothing big. (Balsa and Black trim sheet from the LHS did the trick) Man that tree sap is hard to clean off !

Now, the "self leveling thingy", which is simple terms for AFS does not teach you anything, it forms bad habits and you learn nothing. Every move you make, the AFS basically fights it. I do not recommend you get it with the AFS ; Now I will recommend, a Simulator, it is a very helpful tool, I spent 9+ months at 1-2 hours a day on the sim and I'm very close to soloing, basically it cuts down your training time (Where it took my dad 2-3 months to solo, it may take me 1 month, considering he didn't use a sim like I did). I believe the Nexstar comes with its own simulator specifically with 1 plane on it, the Nexstar, where other sims have 20+ planes you could experiment with and use in the future after you've moved past the trainer. IMO any simulator will do the same thing, and that is teach you corrdination - I used RealFlight G3.5 . RealFlight, FS One, etc. would all be good ones to use.


TakingFlight96