Igrin* Knight - if you're at your LHS, ask them to see their Sig catalog. I don't know if it's still in there, but they used to have (for years and years) an article about the guy who pops in, lays down lots of money for a fancy-dancy radio and a P51 - against all advice to the contrary. The guy returns like a month later, a little embarassed, and says the Mustang returned to its native form (balsa splinters) and now he'd like to buy a trainer

Where are you in CT? Anybody who used to fly C/L is OK by me. They still sell Dynajets, I think - at least they show them occasionally in speed contests - but always surrounded by people holding their ears

Which P51 was it? GWS? If you've already got all the stuff on order, I'd take the P51 kit box, open it, admire it, then slide it onto a high shelf. Another $30 (or so) will get you the GWS Stik family, or a low-end Crazy Max, or something like that. The advice above is good

You've never seen ANYTHING so fast and uncontrollable and scary as that first plane you're gonna launch without an instructor . No matter what it is, including a Pico Stick. Remember that any glow trainer out there will loop, roll, fly inverted, knife-edge, you name it.......

And this is more fun that any human being has a right to expect. The level of concentration effectively rules out any thoughts of outside problems Totally absorbing....