Hairy46, the lt 40 clipped wing is a blast to fly will hover take off almost vert and knife edge with ease. I am hoping soon i will be feel ready to fly the p40 if i can get more time at the field and the sticks. We had some young adults having a beer party at our field after a rain and tore up the runway. We had to put 11 yards of fill back to fix the ruts the good thing was they caught them leaving the field and was arrested.
Hampden tech you will get a lot of advise on what plane watch the threads and forums and then decide what plane you would like if you fly once a week it will be before next year you will be board with your trainer so be prepared and when you do put up your low wing for the first time you can use buddy box with your teacher if you had one which will take away a lot of your jitters!!!!!!!!

Bill(bigaco)