After reading up thru post #16 I will agree with that.

And I do appriciate everyones input. Im taking it all in and will continue to read and listen to what anyone add's for advice. A couple of the posts do have me thinking about avoiding the NexStar's. To my extremely limited knowledge of where to start, t me the
NexStar looks like a champ for the novice. But the comments above made me stop and think....and this is why I started out asking before I spend a penny...the whole 'a fool and his money' thing comes to mind.

As far as heading in a particular direction. I have tons of tools for RC repair. Buying more specific to a flyers feild box is just part of the fun. I also have a nice lipo charger for my rc vehicles, so I have some of the basics on hand and would just need to fine tune my tools and parts to which ever direction I choose to go.

I have gotten my AMA membership out of the way. I have 2AMA club flying feilds with in 10 minutes of my house and another 2, 30 minutes away. A few more than that in less than an hour ride. So I do have every intention to get involved with clubs and learn to fly with them. At this point Im taking it serious enough that I just bought the RealFlight 6.5 to work with over the winter. IMHO theres no substitute for stick time and the RF 6.5 will help me with the right/left/up/down vs. comint at me or going away coordination.