Once you have thought you have gone as far a you can with a trainer, turn up all the control throws. I have our club trainer set up with the maximum throws I can get in it. One reason was to be able to get students out of trouble close to the ground (they fly a buddy box with dual rates, and fly on the low rates), and so experienced pilots can have fun with it. The plane is a Hangar 9 Xtra Easy 2 with Evolution .45 PTS engine.

I have demonstrated to several very experienced pilots the capability of what a trainer can do, and they where all shocked. I can make a trainer do just about everything a symmetrical airfoiled plane can do (with-in reason), including many of the snap and spin maneuvers (it won't do outside spins, for example, by nature of the airfoil).

If you think you've out grown the trainer, then its time to work on precision maneuvers with it, and when you can make it do everything possible smoothly and precisely you'll find the next level up will be that much more enjoyable. The trainer will make you work at everything where more advanced planes don't. The Sig Kadet Mk II is a very capable plane if you set it up correctly.

Hogflyer