What next after a trainer?
I recently purchased a GP Easy Sport
It's not a low wing, but not a high wing either, more like a shoulder/mid wing. Is semi-symmetrical airfoil with some dihedral.
Well, to say, I just love this plane. it's great, you can do almost anything with it, loops, rolls, knife edge. I can fly it inverted the entire flight if I would want to....
And yet it has no bad tendencies, stalls are pretty straightforward, the nose drops, speed is again incremented, and the plane just continues to fly.
For some reason, I managed to get it into a flat spin the other day. Well, just applied full throttle, corrected with some rudder, and pulled out without any problems.
And, it's a strong plane! had to crashes during landing approach (my mistake - this plane does need some more speed in approach than a trainer, which floats in.... this one need to be "flown in") but with no damage at all.
Last I landed, but got a little short on the end of the field, and the front landing gear got caught into som high grass, making the plane tip over and smash onto the field onto it's back. No damage! Refueled and took off again !!
I have about 15 flights on in now, with still no damage, and it's great.