I love this plane, and fly it all the time. I recommend moving the Center of Gravity a little forward of the point specified in the manual. I fly my aviator trainer with a 4500 to 5000 mAh battery all the way forward in the battery compartment. I also beefed up the area where the landing gear is mounted with additional plywood and epoxy. I also fly with an APC 13x6.5 prop and get about 700 watts, but I limit full throttle bursts to 20 seconds or less. Most of the time, I just putter around in the sky. The color scheme (white on top of wings; dark blue on bottom) makes it easy to maintain visual orientation of plane. I like the plane so much, I bought two - just in case.