You chose wisely. If you're too nervous and have bad preminitions you're likely to do something that will make it a self-fulfilling prophesy. We do this for fun, remember. ;-)

Thanks Charlie,

another month or two on the trainer and I will take my red baby off the wall and into the air.
It is fun but I have only just started and already recognize symptoms of obsession.

Hey Ray, It's all about having fun. The stik is an easy and very confidence building plane for a beginer or a inexperianced pilot. I have several stik and still have my nexstar that I bought several years ago, by far the best trainer out there. I opted for the arf and put in a .61 supertigre and bought a futaba 6exas radio right off the bat with all the goodies. Anyway take the chance with the stik you'll have a blast with that thing. I still have my first stik, lots of patches(from stupid things)but still flies like the first day I took it up. All I can say is get it up and have fun you won't regret it. Happy flying......Rick

Oh yeah out of all of my 30+ planes the sticks are the best, by far....

TZflyer
The Stick is a classic for a lot of good reasons and one is versitility. On low rates, and balanced as the guys have described, its been used many times as a primary trainer. They are "groovy" that is they go where you point em . Also be careful with your landings they WON"T float all the way in like a trainer because of the wing shape differences. Use a click or two of power for a second before it settles to the ground or keep the airspeed slightly faster than the trainer on landing. Do a few fly bys up a little high and stall it to see how it reacts before landing other wise fly it like you stole it! If you do toast it and you probably will its the easiest bird to fix or scratch build a new one. I think it is hands down the best first scratch build and best second plane. good luck

Well, I unfortunately sold my stik before getting it up in the air.
A friend of mine wanted one badly and offered me what I paid for it and I foolishly decided to help him out.
My thinking at the time was that he could have it while I still learned on my trainer and I could order another one.
Starting to regret the decision!!!
Anyway, just finished putting together a Hobbico Avistar and hope to have her up as soon as I have the landings on my first trainer greased.
Thanks for all the encouragement.

Ray

Ok then......Now go out and buy another one!!!! I believe your last one was a .40 sized one. This time buy a .60 sized one,and throw an OS .75 or a Super tiger .90(carefull with tuning it) sized engine in it. After flying those other planes,you'll be glad to have something bigger,plus it will most likely fly even easier and better then the .40 you had. Plus its bigger which makes it cooler!

I've said it before and I'll say it again....my Big Stick .60 with a Super Tiger .90(dead sticked me a couple times,but runs awesome now) is BY FAR my best,easiest to fly,and funnest plane I own so far. Its kinda like this....This morning I'm thinking about going flying if it warms up and the only plane I'm gonna take with or even bothered to charg last night is the big stick........not sure why...just because.

Get a Stick & you will never go back.
------- 1986 ---------------------- 2007-----

Ray, with a good 46 up front, an Avistar is great airplane. Not familiar with your other trainer, but if it has a flat bottom wing, you`ll find the Avistar to be more capable. You`ll no doubt move on to the Stik and/or some other more " advanced" planes, but I`ll hazard a guess that you`ll keep your Avistar for those "just want to relax and fly" days. I`ve had mine for almost four years ( it was my training and solo bird ), and although I fly other planes, I still enjoy he Avistar.

DOG!
You sold your stick? Well you can't have to many sticks around so it'll be cool. Now since it is spring at your end of the world you have an excuse to get a Hanger 9 Ultra Stick ARF. They are super with flaps and you can do a search on it on RCU for some recomemded mods. Or scratch build one its an easy build![8D]

I thought I might catch stick for selling my stik!
I am looking for a scratch build project and was considering the SIG 4* but it may just turn out to be the stik if the build is as easy as you say (this will be my first scratch build).
I have an OS .46 ax on my avistar and am really looking forward to flying her. Its raining today so it will just have to wait a few days. My previous trainer was a LanYu (chinese import) flat bottom wing aircraft and from what I have read on here the avistar and the stik are going to be much better to fly.
Jester, my next plane will definitely be a .60!

Ray

Hello Everyone:

At the end of last year, I took great interest in this thread.

Where I fly, there is always some wind and about 25% of the time it's too windy to fly. I read on RCU that stick type planes are less effected by wind because of the small fuselage cross section.

My trainer plane, a Hobbico Superstar powered by an OS 50sx would be blown around a lot by the wind. Because it would end up in a different place to where I had pointed it, I would feel that I didn't have control of it. Also, when flying into the wind it would balloon up in a big way.

I already had a SuperTiger G90 so I bought a GP Big Stik 60 to try as a second plane which I hoped would handle the wind a little better.

I was itching to try the new plane but didn't quite have the courage.

The matter was decided for me a couple of weeks ago. I had a "mid-air" with my trainer. My Superstar went into the ground hard and was destroyed.

I'm still on the instructor and buddy box system. Because of family commitments, I wasn't able to fly my Big Stik 60 until yesterday.

I like it. My instructor observed "It flies beautifully" and "It's easier to fly than your trainer".

On low rates, the Big Stik 60 is easy to fly and easy to see in the air.

A big thank you to Jester241 for pointing me in this direction.

I look forward to many happy flights with my Stik. Now I'm thinking of getting a spare, just in case ......

Bye, Ian

Congratulations on flying your Stik Ian.
I flew my Avistar until I felt confident enough to fly my Stik and I love it.
I find the Stik easier to land than my trainer even though she comes in a bit faster and she does handle the wind very well, better than most everything at our field. While the others watch the wind sock nervously us Stik pilots are up in the air!
I have now set my radio to dual rates and on high rates she can be quite a handful but fun.
Its also easy to repair. I broke the tail off during a dead stick and she was up and running a few days later.
Good flying,

Ray

Hi Ray

Can you remember how much you paid for your 40 stick and where you got it from?

Cheers
Lee