ORIGINAL: JD and Beastlet
I'm brand new to the hobby... my wife gave me a Hobbyzone Super Cub LP for Christmas. After doing some research Iopted for Phoenix, for two reasons. First, it comes with a perfectly good Spektrum DX5e 2.4 GHz DMS2 transmitter. Second, it models the Hobbyzone Super Cub.
I wanted to practice flying RC with the sim this winter; I've got over five hours on it so far. When spring comes I'll take the actual airplane out for its first flight, hopefully having learned enough to cut down on the number of crashes.
You should have no problem with that Super Cub. It is wonderfully easy to fly and all you have to do to land it is point it at the runway and back off the throttle until it starts to descend. As long as you keep the rate of descent under control it will almost land itself. You will want to gradually pull back on the elevator as it gets near the ground to make the descent very shallow and then gradually pull back on the throttle as well. It is VERY much like it is in the simulator. About the only way to crash it is to hold the rudder way over to the side which will cause it to spin in. But if you just let go of the the stick and give it more throttle it will almost imediatelly recover all by itself. Try that in the simulator and see what happens. Just don't do that too close to the ground or it may not have time to recover. It's a great first plane!