Thanks for all of your posts guys! This will certainly benefit those starting out with some perspective on a variety of approaches.
ORIGINAL: jester_s1
I'm with the guys who have experience, who all seem to disagree with the OP. Like most newbies, the OP's suggestions are based on what's cheapest and easiest, not what works the best. The Champ is fine if you want a toy to fly on very calm days, but not much else. All those other ultra micro planes are harder to fly than their bigger counterparts. If you add up what a guy will spend on all those planes recommended, he could have had a larger trainer and then a bigger electric or small glow sport plane to really build the skills. Once the OP has some experience in the hobby (more than 4 months anyway) he'll agree on the beaten path too. Either that or he'll have moved on to something else because his way is too expensive and too hard.
Tell me what makes you think I only have four months of experience in this hobby? Some of the videos I posted were of me flying ultra micro planes that are as you said "more difficult to fly than their bigger counterparts".
And even though I respect and appreciate all of your responses, I still believe in the path that I layed out above for many of those new to RC planes. If you can master a Champ and then a four-channel Ultra Micro T-28, then you are golden. I wouldn't have done it any other way. It wouldn't have been fun learning from someone telling me what to do at every turn. Learning things on your own is one of the fun and exciting things about this hobby.
GB
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