Obviously, your mileage may vary and not bragging, but I built my speedster and did the first flight myself after getting my tail wheel endorsement in 5 hours. Actually, that 5 hours was the only flying time I had after 10 years of not flying anything at all. I got the tail wheel endorsement in a Champ. It was slow to respond and only had 65hp. When I got in the kitfox I LOVED the responsiveness. It did what I told it to do. No hesitation. I thought and still think the Speedster is EASIER to fly than the champ.