I've yet to take off myself however today I made my first landing. My instructor absolutely great, the man with the majic thumbs. I flew my spad in patterns and eights both ways and made a couple approaches. On final just as the plane passes me it revs up and I think that he has taken over control so I just let it go. It lands hard and bends the home made aluminum gear a little. Come to find out, he hadn't taken over at all, it was just running out of gas and reved up. Go figger. Next flight went better after remembering to reverse the xmitter I was using. That was wierd everything going backwards. Once we switched it all was fine and I made my first pass to land a little too high so I went around again. I cut the throttle on downwind and let it settle in on base it went by me about four feet above the ground and settled in for a three point landing. Some of the other guys asked who landed it me or Dave. Now thats a real compliment considering this fellows ability. I know it may not be a true solo but I feel real good that I got it on the ground and all in one piece. See a pic of my plane, built by my son-in-law. It has a OS .46LA Futaba radio and servos. Here's a pic.