Ok heres the background on me. Iv had about 20 hours stick time in front of a computer. I practiced with all kinds of wind speeds and directions. I purchased a hobbico nexstar from my lhs. My first real flight ever was a solo one. I know I know that was a bad idea. But I flew it half decent . The first flight was a great feeling that is when my knees stopped shaking. Although the plan was very shaky itself.

I trimmed it out the best I could and got it flying nice a straight but still shaky. Well I flew 3 more flights with the speed brakes and the wing droops on. On my 5th flight I took off the speed brakes and wing droops [X(]. WOW this thing flys SO much smoother and stable without them on . I'm not even going to mention the afs thing. I pulled the plug on that when I turned it on and for some reason I couldn't use my ailerons . I still don't know why that happened but I think I would have created some bad habits if I would have gotten use to it anyway.

So here I am now with a still flying nexstar. Although it does have a few dings . I'm very pleased with the plane after I took the training aids off it. Mostly cause its a lot faster . Now I cant say I'm a 100% newbie in the airplane world. I do have my A&P but I'm to chicken to fly real planes lol ill just stick to fixing them and playing with RC versions.

My next big step to take is I wanna get a new radio and setup the flaps. At the same time also recover it and change it to a tail dragger. I almost enjoy the modding of the plane as much as flying it . After I'm very very comfy with the nexstar and have done a few mods to it I'm really thinking on grabbing a Goldberg tiger 60 deluxe. Iv done some searching on how it flys and no one really has any complaints about it.

But I think its time to end this long 1st post of mine. I'm just so excited about this new hobby of mine I felt I would share with everyone. Maybe another new comer will read this and go get a plane!

P.S. Thanks to everyone here at RC universe. Even tho this is my first post this isn't the first time iv been here and a lot of threads iv read have kept me from trashing my plane the first flight.

There are lots of posts about why new flyers bought the plane because of the extra stuff only to find out that its better to learn with the afs and the other gizmos off the plane. If they knew that ahead of time they could have bought a basic trainer and saved enough to buy fuel for the summer. [8D]

Depends on the version they buy I agree with you to an extent but if you buy the ARF and not the RTF the price is right in line with the H9 Alpha ARF or $10.00 more than an Avistar.

Thankx shakes. Good to know.

Yea im thinking I should have gotten a avistar. But my major reason for buying it was the included sim. But the sim was alot more basic then what I was thinking it would be. But im still happy either way.