Mole21401, guess you've seen it - like with any other plane out there, there are no shortage of opinions on the Nexstar - some good, some bad. Personally, and with more than 50 years of model flying under my belt, I find few faults with the plane at all. Yeah, it can crash and burn, so to speak, but any other plane can too - depends on circumstances I guess. Bigedmustafa is right, it's NOT a windy-day flier - wouldn't put one up with winds over 15 mph, but anything less and we've had no problems at all. Take-offs with ours have all been totally standard - taxi out to runway, line her up, hit the gas and GO! Just watch for something of a tendency to try to nose-up vertically when she clears the ground. One of ours wants to do that, another takes off straight as an arrow with a very gentle climb - just like they should.

They seem to mostly land like a glider (based on the 3 we've flown) - long and slow, they float like mad. GREAT for learning to land.

If you've got that simulator that comes with the RTF version, you'd do very well indeed to put as many hours as you can into it before you take your plane out. Like I said in the beginning (3rd post), the simulator is hotter than the actual plane. If you can fly the simulator easily, you're nearly guaranteed good flights with the plane.

It has a fairly good track record overall though and I, personally, think you'll enjoy it.


Dave