I completely agree. I just have the bug to buy a second model already. Using a buddy box, my instructor had me do the take off which was actually not a problem at all. Little bit of left rudder to straighten the take off and it picked up nice and easily. We then did some approaches and my biggest issue was getting the plane to lose altitude. I kept overshooting the runway even an idle. My only complaint is the NexStar doesn't want seem to want to come back to Earth.