Hello-the kombat 40 is not as easy as the manufacture leads you to believe-I own one-sure it is more crash worthy but a whole lot harder to fly than a regular triainer with alot of dihedrel in the wing-I do not want to discourage you though-I too was a guy that lived out in the" sticks" and after numerous attempts of tearing 4 airplanes to toothpicks and no one to help-I finally went to the model shop 32 miles away and told the guy teach me how to fly and I will buy your model-he agreed and turned out to be a real mentor-I just had to ask and I got help-now I am flying on my own for the third month after trying to teach myself since 1994-and I have been building for 20 years. It is a fun sport and I am glad that there are still some people that will help or I would still be crashing or lost intrest and would have got involved in something else-some flying fields have a arrogance about them-they should be ashamed to act this way-they do not promote the sport and we end up with a bunch of crashed arf's and people that will never participate in this sport-with no one buying r/c supplies-the accessories have a more limited selection than we did even 10 years ago.--I took my flying lessons 60 miles away from my home-but it was worth time and effort and also made a few new friends-thanks jim