ORIGINAL: oldtyme
ORIGINAL: Phoenixangel
I love your combo,getting the kit is brilliant, and will teach you a lot about your plane, but it is more difficult, well the covering is. Tower has the same combo with their trainer, really good little plane also. They have it as an ARF for a little less money and free shipping, if you are interested. [link=http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0161p?&I=LZ0085]CLICK ME[/link]
Good advice but I'm an advocate of the philosophy that for people just getting into the hobby, building a kit is a must for several reasons not the least is that they will understand construction methods and will then be able to repair. I know that there are legions of folks that will disagree but ARF's have produced a lot of pilots that only know how to throw away planes when they have a mishap rather than be able to repair them and the kit built planes actually will weather a crash better because they are put together better.
That would be why I called it brilliant,and said it will teach a lot about planes. Covering is harder is just a fact. Then I gave a suggestion that is better on his budget. Not sure how that is a negative since the OP stated he is on a limited budget.May let him buy more fuel to fly his plane.