in my club i am now classed as a solo pilot, my previous trainer i was using, i was doing fine with that, the last flight i had with is (october 2002) my old instructor at my old club told me to bring it in for a landing, unfortunatly i had a deadstick so they brought it in and after that weather forced me to stop flying for the winter. I have solo'd with my new trainer and flown it in many different conditions, quite a few times in very heavy wind and i have managed it ok. I think if i went to the field tommorow and tried to fly a 4ch full trainer then i could fly it without any problems as i am used to their flying. If anything, my current trainer is harder to fly because it only has rudder control and i can fly a lot better with ailerons as i, personally, find it a lot easier

i know most of you have doubts about me even being able to fly a full 4ch trainer but i have and can fly them, i will take your advice and leave my advanced trainer for now, i will try and get hold of a buddy cord for this saturday

as for the bmfa 'A' certificate, you can do it with the 3 ch trainer i'm using, i've had it checked out and they said its fine, as long as you can do all the prescribed manouvers in the book then you can use it to do your 'A' cert.