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Once you have mastered your trainer, and received your "wings",  it is time to move on to you next plane.

Many times I see newbies, moving on to their next plane, but they are not very good flyers. I think they feel that a low wing plane will make them a better pilot.

Such is not the case, only stick time makes you better. If the trainer you bought was a brick, then you are dying to move on and put that poor model behind you.

I feel you are ready to move on, when you can do or attempt to do the following with your trainer: loops, roll, dead stick landings, a series of touch and goes, high speed  passes, stall turns, and inverted flight.

Your next model should be a mid wing or a low wing trainer with a constant cord wing and a low wing loading.

An good example of a mid wing trainer is the Sig Mid Star 40.

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A good example of a low wing trainer is the Sig Four Star 40

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