Originally posted by DBCherry
I'm assuming that your trainer was trike gear. (Had a front wheel.) If so, the take offs with the spit will likely require use of rudder and elevator in ways that weren't required for your trainer.
For example; when taxiing, you will need to hold in soem up elevator to keep the tail on the ground (prevent nosing over). You will also need to hold up elevator when you start your take off roll. As speed builds, you will have to ease off on the elevator, which will likely cause the tail to come off the ground first. (You want this to happen.)
During the application of throttle during take off, the plane will likely also try to turn to the left, sometimes almost violently. You will need to stay ahead of this tendency by feeding in right rudder. (Be careful, if the plane gets ahead of you it will turn left, then right, then left. It will get worse, not better, so shut down throttle and try again from a dead stop.)
Once the tail is up, and the plane is tracking straight down the runway and you reach "flying speed" just a bit of up elevator should get it off the ground. Do NOT try to yank it off the ground with elevator before it's ready. The plane will most likely stall and roll off to one side, then into the ground.
Tip stalls are what happens when the 'tip' of one wing loses lift earlier than the root of that wing. When that happens, that wing tip will usually drop quickly, the plane will roll to that side, and often dive straight into the ground if you don't have enough altitude.
Tip stalls happen when the plane is flying too slowly for the wing. I'm not sure if the Corospit will have this tendency. Coro planes are quite different than 'normal' planes.
To avoid a tip stall in the air, be careful to keep your spped up, especially in "downwind" turns, such as turning onto base during a landing.
You can build wash out into the wings to help prevent tip stalls. (The trailing edge of each wingtip should be raised a bit during construction.) This helps prevent the tip from stalling before the root.
All from me.
Good luck,
Dennis-
This all applies whether the plane is high wing or low wing.