I just built one of these, and while its definitely not a trainer, it can be flown by a novice with rates low and a lot of expo.  But I suggest LOTS of sim time first to get orientation down.

http://www.nitroplanes.com/91a-3dhawk-arf.html

Only thing needed to finish is some glue (I used hot glue and CA) and a RX/TX.

Really amazed at how well this plane flies for 60 bucks.  For that price you can buy 2 or 3 of them and by the time you build the 3rd one you should be good enough to never crash it.

However, when you do crash...its easy to fix with some hot glue here and there. </p>