I have three "trainers" in the fleet. One is a H9 Easy 2 that I picked up used after not flying for a couple years - now it's set up for trainer racing. Second is a Balsa USA Stik40+, with dual aileron servos and a Saito 56 - a ball to fly, and the aileron servos are on top so it has a ton of throw! Third is a stock NexStar, TT 46Pro and recommended throws, with all the training aids - grandson trainer.

I keep a trainer for training others, flight demos at less than perfect locations, and as backups for fun-flys. I've also tossed one in the pickup and shown up at fields where they don't know me, just to see how I was received. You can tell a lot about a club by how they treat such folk....and as many as I've helped over the years, I know how to act like a newbie!

My First trainer, a great Planes trainer .40 I built from a kit, I learned to fly on, then I gave it to a friend, under one condition, you give it to someone else. Believe it or not, 6 people learned to fly on that plane before it met its demise. I ended up building the trainer .60 on floats. That was a "Great Plane"......it had a symmetrical wing, so I built the .60 with a flat wing, bolt on, and flew it for a long time. I must have re-kitted it, but I really don't recall, but I don't have it any more. You could do anything with it with that airfoil, and it flew inverted great. I would buy another in a snap if they still made them, but then, everything went by way of the ARF. Ugghhhh...........

Dave

My fist trainer that I learned on was a Sig ? Seniorita with a 25 whatever with a Kraft gold addition 4 channel.Linier servos [about the size of a pack of cigs]It flew great not counting ground looping.So I hand launched it and everything excelerated after that.
I have a Midwest "Airobat that I fly when its very windy and or during the winter.Great plane.The seniorita was back in 1968 so I have flown many other planes now and fly giant scale war birds and Cap 232 and Ultimate.Been a long time now.Tom
P.S. the bipe on the left is a "Sperry Messinger" scratch built about 1970

My trainer was a Eaglet 50 with a OS FP .25 in her. I rebuilt her so many times the fuse was the shape of a bananna.... anyhoo that was 24 years ago. I would have loved to kept her! Now I fly...

My first trainer was a cox 'centurion w QRC .049' engine and 2ch sanwa radio back in the later 70's, fun stuff, first flight lasted a whole 4 seconds which was the time it took to fly into the one tree in the whole area...a bit of epoxy and it was going again. repeat that scene a few times and you'll know why I don't have that plane anymore!  First really successful plane was a Goldberg Eaglet w/ enja .19.   I keep 1 or 2 trainers in my trailer because I'm always training newbies, I let them get flight time on my planes then take-off my plane and once they can line up w/ runway I let them land my planes, needless to say then I have lots of kids show up when I'm flying and I also get to do a bit fixing every 1-2 wks for our 3wkends per month of flying.

My first trainer was a Hobbyzone Super Cub which eventually gained too much weight to fly so it now hangs in my garage.

My current "trainer" is a Avistar, it has dual aileron servos and a OS 46FX with a APC 12x5 prop. I custom made a tail skid (necessary for CG) out of metal that also acts as a washer for the rudder retainer nuts and now do full length runway tail drags before *****g the throttle for a vertical climb out.

It has seen a few motors since I have had her most notably a Magnum 45 with a tuned pipe that ran under the wing.

Surprisingly I have yet to "train" anyone with it but keep it with me cause it is such a fun plane to fly.

Hi,
I answered "still Have it". Actually I have a trainer, not my first one. It only lasted 17 years They are nice for float flying and introducing new people and fun flying.
I often fly the trainer first then fly the more aerobatic ones after the thumbs are warmed up. My trainer is a Franken-trainer made up from two LT 40s. It has extra rudder and only half the dihedral of a stock LT40.