well i ahd a stroke of good luck last night. Im about 2/3 done with the framing on my kadet seniorita, and a friend came over to see it. He has an older trainer(no idea wich one) that got broken before it flew(broken tail feathers......should be an easy fix. few cents in balsa and som epoxy). He says i can have the plane. so im going to have two trainers that need a little construction to be flyable.

now my reason for posting. I dont know wich one i should use first. the second plane has ailerons, so i was thinking i would convert it to a taildragger to use as a second plane. im not shure though. what do yall think,should i keep bothe as a tric gear and switch between them training, or convert the second plane as a step up in difficulty from the tric, no aileron, seniorita?

Not knowing your level of flying, I will assume that you are new to flying and are looking for information on what to do with either one of those planes.

First of all, if you are very new, you will find that the trike gear will be somewhat easier to land. I am not quite sure why that is because I too am fairly new and find that my trike gear planes land nice and smooth but the tail draggers seem to bounce a couple times on landing.

During take off, there is somewhat of a different behavior too. The trike will pretty go in the direction that the front wheel steers it to, but the tail dragger, as soon as that rear wheel comes off the ground, it tends to vane into the wind (normal function) and you actually have to get familiar with the rudder and the slight delay in the action/reaction with using the rudder on take off.

Other than that, keep them light (weight wise) and if you ARE new, find a good instructor to help you with and mentor that person, follow instructions and do as the instructor suggests, you can't go wrong.

I would start with the 4 channel and trike gear combo. Once you have soloed you would probably be able to fly the 3 channel by yourself. If you start with the 3 channel and solo with it and then try to fly the 4 channel by yourself, you could have problems. [8D]

Fly the crap out of your seniorita. No ail. right?? While you are flying that repair the 2nd (free) plane. Convert it over to a tail dragger, ailerons, etc. Also take the wing and cut it in half. Take the dihedral out of it so it is a flat wing, no dihedral. Cut you some 1/8" ply wing joiners and epoxy it back together. You will have a way different plane. You could also take a bay off of each wing side too.........