My first airplane was a CG Gentle Lady that I built from a kit around 15 years ago. A wonderful floater and excellent airframe to learn on. It would stay up quite a while off the hi-start, which gave me plenty of flight time to learn - even if I didn't find any thermals. My first glow kit was a CG Tiger 60 which I have a blast flying! I've only built two CG kits so far, but they were both winners in my book. I still have both airplanes