Nitroholic...that's a good, mature decision to not go with the Sundowner.  You **could** successfully fly it IF you had a GREAT buddy to fly with, spent TONS of hours on a simulator, had incredible natural talent, and the patience (yours and your buddy's) to not try and land it for months.  If you tried to treat the Sundowner like a Stick or a Trainer....it would QUICKLY transform into a bunch of tiny little pieces of wood.<div>
</div><div>I'm not trying to be a nay-sayer, but flying is a LOT different than R/C cars in the sense that if you get an r/c car that is too "advanced" you'll spend money on parts and you won't be as fast as you'd like...but you're not going to have a total, catastrophic loss of every major component.  Planes?  Not so unheard of.</div><div>
</div><div>Now let me be another pro-Trainer/Stick guy.  Trainers are around for a reason.  They're not pretty, fast, scale, or aerobatic.  If they are, they're not a trainer.  They exist to TRAIN you until you are ready to progress.  Another benefit is that while learning you WILL crash a few small times.  With a trainer, you use epoxy everywhere and back in the air quickly.  Everything is straight and boxy.  With the Sundowner (or something similar), you want to repair it to its original good looks, which is much more difficult to achieve....especially for new builders.  If you want something big and 4-stroke powered, let me be the first to suggest the Spacewalker (big and little).  The big one would fly BEAUTIFULLY with that Saito 150 (even if overpowered).  The small one would do great with anything between a Saito 56 and Saito 82.  Relatively cheap, REALLY pretty, fly/look/sound great with a 4-stroke, AND they fly like a trainer.  More advanced than a basic trainer, but I think the best trainer substitute out there.  I still recommend a trainer, but if you have someone willing to help this plane will do just fine.</div>