The L-39 is an excellent aircraft. Easy to maintain, and you must maintain
it often. Most civilians can't afford, or maintain, the ejection seats, and tend
to fly without them. Unlike a Cessna, FOD will usually ruin your
day. Many Cessna pilots with more money than experience have been
flying these things into the ground for years. Suffice to say, if you are a
sloppy person, then the first stick deflection to the left, will usually be your
last. It always works fine on the ground, but the people who buy these
rigs are in it for the performance, and I've seen more than one pilot lose
all his change in a snap roll after take-off check complete. It ain't a
pretty site to see them upside down rocking the wings and trying to
recover all the debris. I even watched one guy try to extract a box of
donuts from behind his left rudder peddle. He finally had to take his
boot off to grab it... Everyone has a right to kill themselves, and I'm
glad to hear he didn't kill anyone else.