I can ask...keep in mind I am a college student. To give some background on this...I am actually a Mechanical Engineering student and I am going to be doing the SAE AERO competition for my Senior Capstone Project. For this competition we actually build our own RC plane from the ground up (although we buy an off the shelf electric motor and battery) and compete against other Universities from all around the world. I think this plane will actually help me and my team out when it comes to general prototyping, design, and benchmarking. My mom agreed to buy me a plane to help with this, so how much I can spend is up to her not me!

I totally understand and realize that if I get more into the hobby itself that it will be a good idea to pick up the DX6i. At this point though I think that is stretching the budget.

Thanks for all the help!