Bob, boy does your story sound familiar. I about lost my first 4* wihle I was still on the buddy box. I got into some real serious trouble and the instructor managed to pull it out, after clearing the runway, while pulling out of a dive, with all of two inches to spare. He commented on how it was a good thing that the plane was so responsive, I pointed out to him that if he handn't bumped the dual rate switch I wouldn't have got into so much trouble to begin with..

Ken is dead on about it being a good flying plane. Just one word of warning, You have noticed how it comes in nice and slow for landings. It will stall, and with little warning. and that is how I lost my second. Too slow on the down wind in a good breeze, Made my turn to final to soon and when I turned back, it dropped like a rock. Just remember to keep some speed up until you are over the runway. If the plane starts to rock side to side on landing, a few clicks more throttle would be a good idea at that point

I've got #3 ready to go on the bench. I'm still drawing up the mod's I'm going to do. I should start laying out parts next week.