<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Thanks for the advice Scotty!  Sorry for the wall of text in my initial post.

Your advice is very good, and exactly what I plan to do.  I plan to get a big styrofoam plane (as mentioned in my inital post), with a high mounted wing.  It's generaly considered a trainer?  I guess it's got "sky trainer" in the name.

I plan to fly the hell out of sims until the plane comes, then go low and slow as I can until I learn the flying.  I probably won't take the thing out of my living room until I have a good feel for the control.

I plan to hook up with the local club if possible.  I just figured it would be a lot easier if I actually had a plane in hand that they could show me how to fly.  I'm not sure how active they are yet.  I'm getting a trainer &amp; controller and the whole nine yards.  I just want to figure out the next step as far as adding electronics to the package.</div></span>