Fabulous plane to start your building career with, welcome to the true basis of our wonderful sport. You've picked a good plane - not the easiest to build but no "nasty" surprises either. Just pay CLOSE attention to the instructions and listen to hints you'll pick up from experienced builders - you'll have no problems at all.

I've just read the first half-dozen replies on the first page so I'm probably WAY out of touch with your progress but I couldn't wait to add my 2-cents worth here. The Telemaster-40 is a true classic, and even being a flat-bottom airfoil, it IS capable of some rather credible basic aerobatics, including inverted flight. She flies slow and outstanding stable, takes-off at barely more than a walk and lands so slow a corpse can keep up with her (no offense intended).

My only real recommendation is that you might think of adding more deflection to the control surfaces - all of them. There will be times when the breeze will tend to overpower the ailerons - especially - and I, personally, like having the capability of "forcing" my will on the aircraft. My own Telemaster (which is over 30 years old) has no dihedral and all control surfaces deflect 45-degrees - which makes her a rather maneuverable old lady.

Got a couple pics here of my old lady in-flight this spring (a couple weeks ago). They're not great, but...

Dave