NO!
I never said i was sceptical about kitplanes. ONLY just the SS.
I had been flying Kits almost 20 years before that and here i am almost 20 after still flying them. (The CAA and IAA have been chasing me for Years
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And yes, i have flown one, that one i mentioned in my post, although a small flight Coventry - Leicester on a test. I already knew this models reputation.
I found this particular aircraft unstable, unbalanced and nerve wrecking, and yes the owner was with me. However this same flight made me sceptical of purchasing a kitplane that has already been assembled by someone else. I love Kits and the fascination of the first test flights, but when a certain model has more than average failings it is not necessarily pilot errors, regardless of .experience on type.