Sorry, but when you said your own neighborhood, in a grassy field, I just assumed electric. You may be looking at glow. Either way, a bi-plane is not a good trainer. If you want to select a good trainer in the glow powered category, go to the top of the first page of the Beginners Forum and look over the list of trainers that are there. There are a lot of planes to select from and they are all great trainers.

And, don't plan on using your car radio.. you have to get a good four channel radio (at least four channels.. throttle, aileron, rudder, elevator) or more.

CGr.